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Members of the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), OCI (The Ocean Color Instrument), HARP2, and SpexONE teams pose with the PACE Spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8. PACE is NASA’s newest earth-observing satellite that will help increase our understanding of Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and climate by delivering hyperspectral observations of microscopic marine organisms called phytoplankton, as well new data on clouds and aerosols.

Members of the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), OCI (The Ocean Color Instrument), HARP2, and SpexONE teams pose with the PACE Spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8. PACE is NASA’s newest earth-observing satellite that will help increase our understanding of Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and climate by delivering hyperspectral observations of microscopic marine organisms called phytoplankton, as well new data on clouds and aerosols.

Photographer NASA / Denny Henry
Album SpaceX_PACE