NASA Puns: Tree Edition

Narration: Laine Haven

Transcript:

The PACE mission just released one full year of global changes in land vegetation. PACE is hyperspectral, meaning it can detect a lot of colors. Not just the pigments in plankton, but in any plant, land or sea, all over the globe.

Well yew asked fir it, so back by poplar demand, it’s NASA Puns: Tree Edition.

Let me branch out and ash you something: how wood you study all the plants on Earth? Now before you go and birches your gear, let me tell you: PACE beech you to it.

PACE walnut be outdone when it comes to plant pigments. Pigments are substances in leaves that absorb and reflect light to power photosynthesis, You may already know the green pigment chlorophyll.

Look, olive for chlorophyll, and satellites before were great at detecting chlorophyll in leaves, which told us things about plants’ productivity, but the color spectrum chestnut larch enough to cedar changes due to things like bugs and drought. So PACE has spruced up our remote sensing toolset and is going to dig deeper into the root of the problem.

As we collect more info over time, PACE maple more foresters and farmers to look at the data in their region. Vegetation investigation willow a lot to PACE. I can hardly cypress my excitement!

Oak-ay, if you’re pining for more, join me next time. Unless you’re sycamore puns.