For centuries, oceanographers were limited in their study of the highly variable and incredibly vast ocean by what they could physically sample from the deck of a slow moving ship. Like so many ...

The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) Team will receive the 2000 William T. Pecora Award during ceremonies on October 3, 2002 at the National Space Club’s 21st Annual Fall Reception at ...

SeaWiFS turns 10 this year. What is SeaWiFS? It is one of the most important advances of science in the last 20 years. The SeaWiFS is an instrument on a sattelite (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view ...

Mary Cleave left the NASA astronaut corps in the early 1990s to make a rare jump from human spaceflight to Earth science. She was going to work on an upcoming mission to measure gradations in ocean ...

Astronauts famously call Earth the blue planet, a reflection of its watery surface. But, if you want to understand the other special thing about our planet -- its life -- you need to look at the green ...

GREENBELT, Md. — The NASA-managed Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) instrument settled into orbit around Earth in 1997 and took its first measurements of ocean color. A decade later, the ...

The NASA-managed Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor instrument settled into orbit around Earth in 1997 and took its first measurements of ocean color. A decade later, the satellite's data has ...

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The CZCS was the first satellite sensor devoted to ocean color imaging. Out of six spectral bands, four were used primarily for ocean color. These four bands were centered at 443, 520, 550, and 670 nm ...

SeaWiFS, on board the OrbView 2 (aka SeaStar) satellite measures the wavelengths of light reflected by phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants) and algae that use chlorophyll for photosynthesis. Over ...