NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR)

Instruments Overboard

On July 26, 2014, scientists worked past dusk to prepare and deploy the optical instruments and ocean water sensors during NASA's SABOR experiment.

NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) experiment is a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based capabilities for monitoring microscopic plants that form the base of the marine food chain.

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Credit: NASA/SABOR/Wayne Slade, Sequoia Scientific
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