NASA’s S-MODE Field Campaign Deploys to the Pacific Ocean
October 12, 2022
The mission’s fleet of ship, aircraft, and marine robotics will study ocean eddies and other elusive features near the surface that have a big influence on climate.
When the research vessel Bold Horizon sailed from Newport, Oregon, in early October, it joined a small armada of planes, drones, and other high-tech craft chasing the ocean’s shapeshifting physics.
NASA’s Sub-Mesoscale Ocean…