COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Beakers and Blankets: Readying for SABOR's Ocean Voyage
Description: This summer scientists with NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) experiment will make observations from ship and aircraft off the U.S. Atlantic Coast aimed at advancing the technology needed to measure microscopic plankton in the ocean from space. Follow SABOR researchers as they work toward finding out how and why plankton are changing around the planet, and where the carbon associated with plankton goes. Plankton play an important part of the climate system and deliver oxygen to the atmosphere, absorb carbon dioxide, and form the base of the marine food chain. [Source: NASA Earth Observatory]
URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2014/07/15/beakers-and-blankets-readying-for-sabors-ocean-voyage/
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Source: NASA Earth Observatory
Publish Date: 7/15/2014
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