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DescriptionPACE Launch.jpg	English: NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, successfully lifts off 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.
Date	8 February 2024, 01:33:25
Source	https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/53516353578/in/photostream/
Author	NASA/Kim Shiflett

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- PACE (satellite)

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