[NASA] The turquoise color is likely caused by coccolithophores, a type of phytoplankton covered with calcium carbonate plates that can give surface waters a milky-blue appearance. These types of phytoplankton […]
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Orbital Biosignature Recon: NASA-developed AI Could Help Track Harmful Algae
Editor’s note: for more than half a century we have been learning how to use the viewpoint from space to study our home world. The instruments we have developed often […]
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Orbital Biosignature Assay: Phytoplankton Bloom Off The U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coast
Editor’s note: As we begin to study worlds in our own solar system that might have life we use our home world as a testbed for the various ways to […]
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Ocean World Orbital Biosignature Survey: Phytoplankton In Patagonian Waters
Editor’s note: when our first missions – human or robotic – arrive at a new world we’ll want to do glean as much information from space – via fly by […]
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Orbital Biosignature Survey: Lake Erie Algal Bloom
Editor’s note: with the future advent of powerful telescopes that may be able to resolve habitable worlds in images composed of a few pixels, large biological phenomena such as algal […]
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Biosignatures Seen From Space: A Phytoplankton Bloom
Editor’s note: future telescopes may be able to resolve exoplanets in images that contain multiple pixels. Algal blooms can be immense and possibly grow to a size wherein a pixel […]
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Identifying Phytoplankton Species From Orbit
Editor’s note: As our ability to study the characteristics of exoplanets that might be habitable increases, the need for metrics whereby various life forms can be discovered i.e. biosignatures – […]
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Tracking Carbon On Our Planet From Orbit
Whether in plants or animals, greenhouse gases or smoke, carbon atoms exist in various compounds as they move through a multitude of pathways within Earth’s system.