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

 

Storm in the Sargasso Sea

 

Scientist aboard the R/V Endeavor in the Sargasso Sea put their research on hold on July 28, 2014, as a storm system brought high waves crashing onto the deck.

 

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/Chris Armanetti, University of Rhode Island

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Uploaded on August 25, 2014
Taken on July 28, 2014