NASA's Five Newest Earth Expeditions Ready for Takeoff

Complete transcript available. Crew and scientists on board the Bold Horizon work together to streamline the ship's mobilzation. The S-MODE team organizes their scientific instruments before setting sail. Scientists spend the better part of a week retrofitting the ship for their instruments. An S-MODE scientist sets up her team's gear in preparation for their month at sea. Scientists continue mobilizing the ship to take part in the S-MODE mission. A Bold Horizon crew member works in his cabin. The ship's crew works in conjuction with the scientists to prepare the ship for S-MODE. In early October, the research vessel Bold Horizon set sail from Newport, Oregon, and joined a small fleet of planes, drones, and other high-tech craft chasing the ocean’s shapeshifting physics. NASA’s Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) looks at whirlpools, currents, and other dynamics at the air-sea boundary. The goal is to understand how these dynamics drive the give-and-take of nutrients and energy between the ocean and atmosphere and, ultimately, help shape Earth’s climate.Music credit: “Blue Switch” “The Journey Begins” “Sunbeams” from Universal Production MusicDrone Footage Credit: Leon Delwiche of NewFields Related pages

Music credit: “Graceful Play” from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. From its vantage 28,000 feet in the air aboard the NASA Armstrong King Air B200, the DopplerScatt instrument bounces radar signals off the ocean to provide information about winds and currents at the surface. The MASS instrument aboard the Twin Otter DHC6 plane flies below the clouds to observe how surface waves move and break. It collects measurements with a complex suite of laser-based and imaging devices, which allow the team to infer ocean currents from these measurements. Several Saildrones set sail from San Francisco Bay to join the S-MODE fleet collecting data at the study site. The Saildrones and Wave Gliders will measure a vast array of factors such as ocean currents, wind speed and direction, air and water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll content. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. On Oct. 19, the research vessel Oceanus, owned by the National Science Foundation, set sail to an area a hundred nautical miles out to sea off the coast of San Francisco, accompanied by a fleet of several types of autonomous marine research vehicles. Using instruments at sea and in the sky, the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) team aims to understand the role these ocean processes play in vertical transport, the movement of heat, nutrients, oxygen, and carbon from the ocean surface to the deeper ocean layers below. In addition, scientists think these small-scale ocean features play an important role in the exchange of heat and gases between air and sea. Understanding small-scale ocean dynamics will help scientists better understand how Earth’s oceans slow the impact of global warming and impact the Earth climate system. Related pages

Music: Circles of Life and Building Ideas by Todd James Carlin Baker [DPRS]Complete transcript available. Rising seas and storm surge are remaking river deltas and wetlands. NASA’s Delta-X mission sets out in the field and the sky using remote sensing technology to collect data vital to determine which parts of land will survive and continue to grow, which parts will be lost, and why. Related pages

Complete transcript available.This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by pond5.com and Artbeats is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html.Music: "Snowfall" by Andy Blythe [PRS], Marten Joustra [PRS], "Snow Blanket" by Benjamin James Parsons [PRS] Full IMPACTS Animation Sequence A GIF optimized for posting on social media. Areas that get a lot of snow tend to be beneath narrow regions within the clouds called snowbands. To understand snowbands, the IMPACTS science team will fly through them in NASA’s P-3 Orion research aircraft, based out of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. A GIF optimized for posting on social media. Wide shot of NASA's P-3 aircraft that will fly through East Coast snowstorms as part of the IMPACTS campaign. IMPACTS forecaster, Joe Finlon post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washingston, describes how to find the freeze/thaw line on a chart. Complete transcript available. A time lapse of a weather briefing where the team discussed logistics for an upcoming research flight. 4K B-roll 4K B-roll 1080 B-roll 4K B-roll When giant white swirls of clouds cover the weather map with a winter storm warning, one question looms in the minds of people in its path: How much snow will it bring? With snow threatening access to roads, work, and school – not to mention all the shoveling – winter snowfall is one of the most consequential weather phenomena on the U.S. East Coast. It’s also one of the most difficult to predict.Starting in January 2020, NASA is sending a team of scientists, a host of ground instruments, and two research aircraft to study the inner workings of snow storms. The Investigation of Microphysics Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms, or IMPACTS, field campaign will be the first comprehensive study of East Coast snowstorms in 30 years. For More InformationSee [https://espo.nasa.gov/impacts/content/IMPACTS](https://espo.nasa.gov/impacts/content/IMPACTS) Related pages