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NASA’s latest project ‘PACE’ has just been launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission is aimed at learning about microscopic plant life and particles from space. PACE is an acronym for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite.

 

For the first time ever, a satellite will study plankton from space, hundreds of miles above the earth, analyzing the impact of the tiniest life particles on the planet’s atmosphere and climate changes.

 

The reason why NASA is giving such meticulous importance to phytoplankton and other microscopic living organisms is because they play a key role in regulating the climate. Like regular plants, phytoplankton take planet-heating carbon dioxide in and produce oxygen via the process of photosynthesis. They also make the foundation of food chains in oceans, hence greatly influencing the health of marine ecosystems and fisheries. There are found in tens of thousands of different species, each designed to have unique interactions with their environment.

NASA Launches its First Space Satellite Dedicated to the Study of Microscopic Life and Particles


NASA’s GUSTO project that stands for ‘Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory’ is a balloon telescope set to launch from the Antarctic McMurdo Station. The device been put together to collect data that will be used to understand the formation of stars and planets, as well as generate a 3D map of a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way.

 

The job of the telescope is to specifically detecting signals of carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen in the interstellar medium – information that will ultimately help NASA scientists acquire valuable understandings of the formation of stars and planets. More precisely, it will likely help resolve the most important question from heliophysicists and astrophysicists: what makes space particles come together to make up the molecular clouds that are formed prior to stars?

NASA is Launching its First Explorers Program Project – the GUSTO Balloon Telescope

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