The mission is gathering observations with airborne sensors, a research ship, and autonomous instruments like gliders that skim the upper layers of the Pacific Ocean. NASA's S-MODE mission is conducting its third expedition to study the role of ocean surface eddies in climate change. By using div
NASA’s S-MODE mission brings a new generation of observational tools to study ocean surface currents, illustrated here, and other dynamics at the air-sea boundary that shape Earth’s climate. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
NASA has taken to the seas and skies to study the unique environment at the ocean’s surface, where marine ecosystems intersect with our planet’s complex atmosphere. On April 7, scientists participating in the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment embarked on the RV Sally Ride from San Diego on the last of three field expeditions to understand the ocean’s role in the Earth’s changing climate.
Kelly Luis, a NASA postdoctoral program fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, uses a handheld instrument called the Spectral Evolution to measure water color during the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment mission. Credit: NASA/Avery Snyderin California’s Silicon Valley, is gathering observations with airborne instruments, a research ship, and autonomous instruments like gliders that skim the upper layers of the Pacific Ocean.
Luis and colleagues are using ship-based instruments that measure ocean color to understand the creatures living near the surface. When sunlight hits the ocean, different wavelengths are scattered or absorbed. Part of that light transformation is due to the presence of phytoplankton – microscopic organisms floating in the ocean’s surface layer. Phytoplankton not only serve as a foundation of the marine food web, they also take up carbon dioxide and produce oxygen – much like plants on land.
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