PACE Makes it to Space

NASA’s PACE satellite lifted off from Florida and headed for orbit, from where it will observe microscopic organisms in Earth’s oceans and particles in the air.

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Photograph by NASA. NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Video by Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBRWyle)/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio. Story derived from a NASA news release and PACE mission and field blogs, adapted for Earth Observatory by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 9, 2024
Data acquired January 21, 2024

Sources:

Landsat 9 > OLI-2

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