NASA prepares for PACE mission to launch satellite to examine Earth's oceans

CHICAGO -- NASA is preparing to motorboat its adjacent large Earth and clime satellite.

The Plankton Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem ngo oregon PACE is acceptable for liftoff Tuesday greeting from Kennedy Space Center.

PACE volition seizure Earth's pulse done studying the enactment betwixt the oceans and ambiance similar ne'er before.

"This is simply a fantastic ngo that is going to archer america astir the wellness of our oceans and the prime of the aerial that we breathe," Nicky Fox, caput of subject astatine NASA, said.

The PACE ngo has been 21 positive years successful the making.

"I'm conscionable excited astir the caller mode we're going to beryllium looking astatine our planet," Fox said. "We're going to beryllium looking astatine the water with unprecedented item and we speech astir looking astatine water colour with this ngo and truthful if you deliberation astir looking astatine a prism, it looks similar a portion of glass. But if you radiance a airy done it, you dispersed that retired into each the colors of the rainbow and that is fundamentally what we are doing with PACE. We are benignant of shining a airy connected the Earth's h2o strategy and allowing america to look astatine them successful unprecedented item each the mode from ultraviolet up to adjacent infrared truthful not conscionable looking astatine the information that we person phytoplankton successful the ocean, but really to beryllium capable to look astatine the antithetic species, immoderate of which really tin beryllium harmful for us."