NASA’s PACE Mission Studies Smoke, Fires

NASA’s PACE Mission Studies Smoke, Fires: - By Erica McNamee NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite’s three instruments are observing vegetation precursors to fires, along with plumes of smoke and their movement. This data will