NASA has produced a very nice video tribute to the SeaWiFS orbiting sensor, which provided vast amounts of valuable data on Earth’s waters, plant life and weather from 1997 through 2010. The video is narrated by Gene Feldman, an oceanographer at the Goddard Space Flight Center:
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But there’s more for “Mission to Earth” geeks (I count myself as one) over at the Earth Observatory Web site, where SeaWiFS merits the “Image of the Day” — a view of Earth showing the averaged chlorophyll concentration in the oceans from 1998 through 2010 (and of course showing all that glorious green terrestrial plant life, too):
There’s plenty more on Dot Earth about the value of observing this pale blue dot from orbit.
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