News From a Changing Planet: Seeing Algae From Space

PrintMag - Something impossible to see with the naked eye: phytoplankton. Something newly possible to see from space: phytoplankton.
Earlier this month, NASA launched a new satellite, PACE (which stands for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), which will measure the presence, concentration, and types of phytoplankton in bodies of water around the world (as well as those other initialisms in the name) from the comfortable distance of Earth’s orbit.

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