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Total Number of Blog Entries: 32
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| View | 32 | PACE 500 Days | <div class="d-inline">To commemorate the milestone of 500 days in orbit, mission partners came together at UMBC last month to give thanks and highlight the importance of studying our home planet.</div> | |
| View | 31 | PACE offers promising prospects for fishery management | <div class="d-inline">Revealing a colorful look at the sea, NASA’s PACE satellite opens up a new spectrum of knowledge that fishery communities around the world are excited to use.</div> | |
| View | 30 | PACE Hosts Second Hackweek at UMBC | <div class="d-inline">Clicking keyboards, lively chatter, and the smell of coffee fill the room as 49 people from all over the world begin their work. Here, researchers gather to explore insights about Earth from the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.</div> | |
| View | 29 | International Training Advances Ocean Color Satellite Validation Through Next-Generation Expertise | <div class="d-inline">Satellites monitoring our oceans will soon receive enhanced quality calibration and validation data, thanks to an international summer training that brought together experts and early-career scientists from around the world. Members of The Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA (Dirk Aurin, Carina Poulin, Giuseppe Zibordi, and Kirk Knoblespiesse) joined colleagues from CNR-ISMAR, EUMETSAT, and the Tartu Observatory to train the next generation of ocean color scientists during the <a href="https://frm4soc2.eumetsat.int/post/copernicus-frm4soc-2025-training-above-water-radiometry">Copernicus FRM4SOC-2025 Training in Above-Water Radiometry</a>. This event was supported by Copernicus (in the frame of EUMETSAT’s FRM4SOC-2 study) and NASA, from July 6-20 on the island of San Servolo, near Venice, Italy, and the nearby Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower.</div> | |
| View | 28 | A Year of PACE Discoveries | <div class="d-inline">Twelve months into operation, our science team has not only learned a lot about this satellite, but had a few surprises along the way. Check out this year in review with contributing authors Erica MacNamee, Inia Soto Ramos, Ivona Cetinić, Otto Hasekamp and Jeroen Rietjens <em>(SPEXone team, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research)</em>, Anna Windle, Carina Poulin, and Skye Caplan</div> | |
| View | 27 | Land in Living Color | <div class="d-inline">Hyperspectral-enabled terrestrial data products are available from PACE. Fred Huemmerich and Skye Caplan contributed to the report below.</div> | |
| View | 26 | PACE Hosts First Hackathon | <div class="d-inline">When Anna Windle, a PACE postdoctoral researcher, described the mission’s hackweek to her parents, they paused. They had concerns about what their daughter was organizing.</div> | |
| View | 25 | PACE in Bloom: Mission featured in feature film at Goddard Film Festival | <div class="d-inline">NASA filmmaker Emme Watkins' film, 'An Ocean in Bloom' premiered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. this month.</div> | |
| View | 24 | PACE mission update | <div class="d-inline"><strong>11 June 2024</strong></div> | |
| View | 23 | PACE mission update | <div class="d-inline"><strong>29 May 2024</strong></div> | |
| View | 22 | Meet the Pets of PACE | <p>In honor of National Pet Month, the PACE team is saying thanks with fun images of our pets modeling our signature mission bandana.</p> | |
| View | 21 | PACE commissioning update | <div class="d-inline">5 April 2024</div> | |
| View | 20 | PACE weekly commissioning update | 29 February through 13 March 2024 | |
| View | 19 | PACE weekly commissioning update | Launch through 29 February 2024 | |
| View | 18 | PACE weekly commissioning update | <div class="d-inline">Launch through 21 February 2024</div> | |
| View | 17 | PACE weekly commissioning update | Launch through 14 February 2024 | |
| View | 16 | The Importance of PACE's Tilt | If you point a satellite instrument straight at Earth's equator, there's a good chance that reflection from the sun will damage your detectors, causing data to be inaccurate or not available at all. | |
| View | 15 | HARP2 Integrates into PACE Observatory | Nine dots of glue. Three prisms. One flexible pedestal. Glass everywhere. | |
| View | 14 | OCI Instrument Passes Key Review | PACE's Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) passed its pre-environmental review in April, taking the mission one step closer to its January 2024 launch | |
| View | 13 | PACE Celebrates Earth Day with all #NASAEarthlings | NASA's PACE mission inspires us to be better stewards of our planet, especially the ocean. For Earth Day, we continued that practice by participating in NASA's annual Earth Day event at Union Station in Washington, DC. | |
| View | 12 | PACE's Partners Visit Goddard to Review SPEXone | This past month, PACE welcomed a visit from their Dutch research partners. The reason for their visit: to perform a "checkup" as well as to conduct additional calibration testing on one of the mission's multi-angle polarimeters, SPEXone. | |
| View | 11 | PACE/EXPORTS Win Robert H. Goddard Awards | Members of the PACE and EXPORTS team were recognized for their hard work last month as recipients of the 2021 Robert H. Goddard Award. | |
| View | 10 | PACE's Year in Review: 2021 | A White House visit, continued assembly, deliveries and a renewed focus on understanding climate change. For 2021, PACE reached some major milestones as it prepares for launch in early 2024. Here are a few highlights from the Goddard-based mission. | |
| View | 9 | PACE Applications Workshop Looks to Understand our Changing Planet | 538 Participants<br /> 50 Speakers<br /> 71 Countries<br /> 480 Hours of planning<br /> Endless connections and ideas exchanged | |
| View | 8 | PACE Movie-themed Posters For You! | PACE is a mission ready for the stars. Celebrate NASA's latest Earth-observing satellite with these movie-themed posters inspired by the mission. | |
| View | 7 | Learn About PACE and the Ocean With These Back to School Activities | As students across the country are saying goodbye to the summer and the new school year is kicking off, PACE is gearing up to engage students in exciting activities and thought-provoking challenges. The mission has put together a series of online activities to help your students learn more about how NASA studies the ocean. | |
| View | 6 | SeaHawk/HawkEye Cubesat Begins Operations | To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. - Shakespeare from Henry VIII. | |
| View | 5 | Making the Ocean Interactive | We sometimes have a saying on the PACE team: Breathe deep... and thank phytoplankton. | |
| View | 4 | Studying the Ocean's Twilight Zone | For the past month, the NASA-led field campaign <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/tracking-carbon-from-the-ocean-surface-to-the-twilight-zone">Export Processes in the Ocean for Remote Sensing</a> (EXPORTS) has been studying how carbon impacts the ocean, especially in a place right beneath its surface called the "twilight zone." | |
| View | 3 | PACE Spotlight: The ROSEy Research of PACE Scientist Susanne Craig | Right before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Susanne Craig decided to pack up her beachside home a little earlier than expected as she prepared for a road trip to Halifax, Canada to start a new position as a scientist at Dalhousie University's Oceanography Department. | |
| View | 2 | From the Netherlands to Maryland: SPEXone comes to Goddard | The planning of a NASA space instrument usually follows a standard checklist: <ul class="bullets01"> <li style="font-size:1.2em;margin-top:-12px;">Hours of planning</li> <li style="font-size:1.2em;">Numerous checks and status updates</li> <li style="font-size:1.2em;">A coordination of agencies, countries and production crews</li> </ul> <span style="font-size:1.2em;">And even if things go well, one thing can change all that planning, especially a pandemic.</span> | |
| View | 1 | Ocean's Symbiotic Relationships | Albatross and sunfish. Hawaiian bobtail squid and Vibrio fischeri. Sea cucumbers and emperor shrimp. What do these ocean organisms have in common for Valentine's Day? They're in relationships, mainly symbiotic ones. |