PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

Earth Observatory
El Niño - Southern Oscillation
Life on Earth
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Satellite measurements of chlorophyll at the sea surface signal shifts in the ocean’s nutrient supplies in mid-2026.
Posted August 10, 2026
Aqua
Earth Observatory
Goddard Space Flight Center
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Terra
Water Blooms
Seaweed composing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt hit near-record levels in June 2026, with the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of America both reaching all-time highs.
Posted July 29, 2026
Aerosols
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Wildfires
With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite’s three instruments are observing vegetation precursors to fires, along with plumes of smoke and their movement.
Posted June 26, 2026
Clouds
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Life on Earth
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Water Blooms
Wildfires
NASA has a fleet of satellites in orbit, gathering data around the clock, to explore unique views of our home planet’s ocean, atmosphere, and land surfaces.
Posted April 21, 2026
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Human Dimensions
Landsat
Oceans
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Water on Earth
NASA satellites are helping Maine oyster farmers pick better sites and plan when oysters will be ready to harvest.
Posted January 15, 2026
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Ames Research Center
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Science Mission Directorate
In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists.
Posted June 26, 2025
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
A lot can change in a year for Earth’s forests and vegetation, as springtime and rainy seasons can bring new growth, while cooling temperatures and dry weather can bring a dieback of those green colors. And now, a novel type of NASA visualization illustrates those changes in a full complement of colors as seen from […]
Posted June 5, 2025
Earth
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Oceans
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
In the waters off New England, one of Earth’s rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape. The North Atlantic right whale filters clouds of tiny reddish zooplankton — called Calanus finmarchicus — from the sea. These zooplankton, no bigger than grains of rice, are the whale’s lifeline. Only about 370 of these massive creatures remain. For […]
Posted May 5, 2025
Earth Day
Earth
General
Landsat
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Lee esta historia en español aquí. From the iconic image of Earthrise taken by Apollo 8 crew, to the famous Pale Blue Dot image of Earth snapped by Voyager I spacecraft, to state-of-the-art observations of our planet by new satellites such as PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), NASA has given us novel ways to see […]
Posted April 21, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Commercial Crew
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Commercial Resupply
Europa
Europa Clipper
Exploration Ground Systems
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
GOES-R
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Jupiter Moons
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply
Nova-C (Lander)
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Space Launch System (SLS)
From sending crew members to the International Space Station to launching a spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to determine if it could support life, 2024 was a busy record setting year for NASA and its partners at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. JANUARYFirst Lunar Lander Takes Flight The first flight of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]
Posted December 12, 2024
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