PACE-PAX: A Day in the Life of a NASA Field Campaign

NASA - The breeze across the California desert kicks up some dust and sand. As a NASA research plane rolls down the runway and prepares for takeoff, its wings vibrate with the gust of wind. It’s a flight day for one of NASA’s most expansive and complex field campaigns.

The goal: to check the data collected from orbit by NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. To do that, members of the PACE-PAX (PACE Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment) field campaign deployed two aircraft and a research ship from multiple locations in California over the duration of September 2024.

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Knobelspiesse (bottom left), LeBlanc (center), and other members of the PACE-PAX team gather around the conference table during one of the pre-flight briefings for the campaign. Credit: NASA
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