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| How Humans Impact Planet Earth, |
| How Humans Impact Planet Earth, NASA To Conduct Unique Field Experiments
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 26-March-2016
9:49:39 AM |
| NASA is sending scientists around the world this year - from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific - to study how our planet is changing and what impact humans are having on it.
While Earth science field experiments are nothing new for NASA, the next six months will be a particularly active period with eight major new campaigns taking researchers around the world on a wide range of science investigations.
"Combining the long-term global view from space with detailed measurements from field experiments is a powerful way of deciphering what's happening in our world," said Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth Science Division in Washington.
"Scientists worldwide use NASA Earth science field data together with satellite data and computer models to tackle many of today's environmental challenges and advance our knowledge of how the Earth works as a complex, integrated system," Freilich said.
The first of the new projects, currently in the field, is an examination of the extent to which the oceans around Greenland are melting the edges of the ice sheet from below.
The Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) team is now conducting its first airborne survey of the ice edge around the entire coast of Greenland.
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