GSFC_20230601_PACE_017587
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Observatory is lowered into the Space Environment Simulator (SES) thermal vacuuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on June 1st, 2023. PACE's unprecedented spectral coverage will provide the first-ever global measurements designed to identify phytoplankton community composition. The mission will make global ocean color measurements, using the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), to provide extended data records on ocean ecology and global biogeochemistry along with polarimetry measurements, using the Spectro-polarimeter for Planetary Exploration (SPEXone) and the Hyper Angular Research Polarimeter (HARP2) to provide extended data records on clouds and aerosols. The Earth-observing satellite mission, built at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, will continue and advance observations of global ocean color, biogeochemistry, and ecology, as well as the carbon cycle, aerosols and clouds.
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GSFC_20230601_PACE_017587
Date Created
June 1, 2023
Center
GSFC
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NASA / Katie Mellos
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