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We're going on the research vessel Atlantis.
We're down here at Woods Hole and its going be a great day.
i'm from Tennesse.
It's my second NASA social.
This is my first NASA Social.
This is my second one.
First time, yes.
I'm a NASA fan. I work at Boston Children's Hospital.
Actually, it's my fifth NASA social.
NASA invited its die hard social media fans to come learn about a big new
mission called NAAMES.
NASA experts were on hand.
"We've got four components of what
we look at in Earth science."
But instead of using spacecraft for this mission, NASA teamed up
with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and they’re setting off…
in this. The R/V Atlantis.
Welcome aboard.
"Lot of stuff going on. This is a busy day because we are leaving tomorrow."
Then it was off for a tour, including a steep climb up three flights of stairs
to the ship’s bridge.
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But while the bridge is the heart of ship operations, the lower deck is the
heart of the mission. There scientists explained the job, from sophisticated
gear to basic climatology.
"It takes a picture of everything in this sort of region right here and
allows us to see what kind of organism's are in the water
for profiling the data."
A science focus on phytoplankton doesn’t mean there aren’t bigger living things
in the same area.
What’s interesting about these mesopelagic fish is that it turns out
that the biomass—how much mass they have is about ten times that of the fish
you and I think about….
NASA is the exploration agency, and if you’re not in the crew,
this is the next best thing.
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