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Why is NASA Spying on Plankton from Space?

2014-07-19 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: NASA is bringing together marine and atmospheric scientists for a very unusual purpose. The space agency says that it wants to spy on phytoplankton from space. Starting July 20, NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) team will make coordinated flights over the Earth's oceans in the UC-12 airborne laboratory, testing new tools that can collect in-depth data on phytoplankton even from remarkable heights. So why spy on the microscopic plants that cover the Earth's oceans? According...

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