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@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2026-04-11 13:01:40

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
With the safe return of NASA's Artemis II, it is time to talk about plankton space #science 🛰. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is the latest advanced observing satellite launched Feb 2024 which carries the OCI Ocean Colour Instrument measuring hyp…

image/png a satellite image identifies two different algal communities in the ocean off South Africa on Feb. 28, 2024. The central panel of this image shows Synechococcus in pink and picoeukaryotes in green. The left panel of this image shows a natural color view of the ocean, and the right panel displays the concentration of the photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll-a used to identify the presence of phytoplankton. This is the first composite image from the Ocean Colour Instrument on the PACE sat…
image/png a logo for PACE program shaped as a curved triangular arrow head with a stylized image of a portion of the Earth showing swirls of phytoplankton and wind and flared stars in the background. The outer edge contains the words on the sides. Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem. Advanced Measurements of Sea & Sky. NASA/GSFC • UMBC • SRON/Airbus NL.