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NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR)

What's in the Water?

 

Robert Foster, of the City College of New York, filters seawater on July 23, 2414, for chlorophyll analysis in a lab on the R/V Endeavor.

 

NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) experiment is a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based capabilities for monitoring microscopic plants that form the base of the marine food chain.

 

Read more: 1.usa.gov/WWRVzj

 

Credit: NASA/SABOR/Wayne Slade, Sequoia Scientific..NASA image use policy.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.

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Uploaded on August 25, 2014
Taken on July 23, 2014