PACE – Observing the Invisible Ocean Life from Space

The ocean covers 71% of Earth’s surface while providing a playground in which natural and human factors interplay. Since the 1970s, satellites have been providing scientists with continuous information about the color of the world’s oceans. This has resulted in changing our scientific view about the impact that oceanic invisible life, phytoplankton, has on the rest of the living planet. With NASA’s upcoming mission, PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), we will continue those observations and add another dimension to them. Join Dr. Ivona Cetinić, the PACE Project Science Lead for Ocean Biogeochemistry, as she discusses how the PACE mission will unlock the story about the diversity of the ocean world that’s hidden from our eyes. This was recorded on October 20, 2022.

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