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The best people to tell stories
are the ones who love the stories

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they’re telling

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We're going on the
research vessel Atlantis.

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We're down here at Woods Hole 
and its going be a great day.

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i'm from Tennesse.

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It's my second NASA social.

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This is my first NASA Social.

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This is my second one.

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First time, yes.

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I'm a NASA fan. I work at 
Boston Children's Hospital.

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Actually, it's my fifth NASA social.

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NASA invited its die hard social media
fans to come learn about a big new

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mission called NAAMES.

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NASA experts were on hand.

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"We've got four
components of what

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we look at in
Earth science."

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But instead of using spacecraft
for this mission, NASA teamed up 

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with the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, and they’re setting off…

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in this. The R/V Atlantis.

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Welcome aboard. 

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"Lot of stuff going on. This is a busy 
day because we are leaving tomorrow."

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Then it was off for a tour, including a 
steep climb up three flights of stairs

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 to the ship’s bridge.

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♪ music ♪

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But while the bridge is the heart of
ship operations, the lower deck is the 

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heart of the mission. There scientists
explained the job, from sophisticated

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gear to basic climatology.

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"It takes a picture of everything in
this sort of region right here and

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allows us to see what kind of
organism's are in the water

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for profiling the data."

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A science focus on phytoplankton doesn’t
mean there aren’t bigger living things

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 in the same area.


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What’s interesting about these 
mesopelagic fish is that it turns out

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that the biomass—how much mass they have
is about ten times that of the fish

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you and I think about….

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NASA is the exploration agency,
and if you’re not in the crew,  

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this is the next best thing.

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♪ music ♪