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NASA launches mission off San Francisco coast to study ocean's relationship to climate change

To study the role Earth’s oceans play in climate change, NASA recently launched a mission 100 miles off the San Francisco coast that involves a ship, two airplanes, and a fleet of saildrones and other robotic research vehicles.

Mission: