{"id":230154,"date":"2025-06-06T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=872093"},"modified":"2025-06-06T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:15:00","slug":"nasas-pace-mission-reveals-a-year-of-terrestrial-data-on-plant-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=230154","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s PACE Mission Reveals a Year of Terrestrial Data on Plant Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"padding-top-5 padding-bottom-3 width-full maxw-full hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-article-intro\">\n<div class=\"width-full maxw-full article-header\">\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-2 width-full maxw-full\">\n<p class=\"label carbon-60 margin-0 margin-bottom-3 padding-0\">4 min read<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"display-48 margin-bottom-2\">Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A lot can change in a year for Earth&#8217;s forests and vegetation, as springtime and rainy seasons can bring new growth, while cooling temperatures and dry weather can bring a dieback of those green colors. And now, a novel type of NASA visualization illustrates those changes in a full complement of colors as seen from space.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leaf Year: Seeing Plants in Hyperspectral Color\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKS3sHvkc4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Researchers have now gathered a complete year of PACE data to tell a story about the health of land vegetation by detecting slight variations in leaf colors. Previous missions allowed scientists to observe broad changes in chlorophyll, the pigment that gives plants their green color and also allows them to perform photosynthesis. But PACE now allows scientists to see three different pigments in vegetation: chlorophyll, anthocyanins, and carotenoids. The combination of these three pigments helps scientists pinpoint even more information about plant health. Credit: NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite is designed to view Earth&#8217;s microscopic ocean plants in a new lens, but researchers have proved its hyperspectral use over land, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Previous missions measured broad changes in chlorophyll, the pigment that gives plants their green color and also allows them to perform photosynthesis. Now, for the first time, PACE measurements have allowed NASA scientists and visualizers to show a complete year of global vegetation data using three pigments: chlorophyll, anthocyanins, and carotenoids. That multicolor imagery tells a clearer story about the health of land vegetation by detecting the smallest of variations in leaf colors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarth is amazing. It\u2019s humbling, being able to see life pulsing in colors across the whole globe,\u201d said Morgaine McKibben, PACE applications lead at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cIt\u2019s like the overview effect that astronauts describe when they look down at Earth, except we are looking through our technology and data.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?w=1920\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A visualization of North America where the land is overlayed with colors representing data. The east side of the land swirls with blues, greens, and pinks, while the west side is primarily gray.\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?resize=400,225 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?resize=600,338 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?resize=900,506 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pace-land-veg-north-america-dates-legend-00370-m.jpg?resize=1200,675 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Anthocyanins, carotenoids, and chlorophyll data light up North America, highlighting vegetation and its health. For the full visualization, visit: https:\/\/svs.gsfc.nasa.gov\/5548\/<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">Credit: NASA&#8217;s Scientific Visualization Studio<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthocyanins are the red pigments in leaves, while carotenoids are the yellow pigments \u2013 both of which we see when autumn changes the colors of trees. Plants use these pigments to protect themselves from fluctuations in the weather, adapting to the environment through chemical changes in their leaves. For example, leaves can turn more yellow when they have too much sunlight but not enough of the other necessities, like water and nutrients. If they didn\u2019t adjust their color, it would damage the mechanisms they have to perform photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>In the visualization, the data is highlighted in bright colors: magenta represents anthocyanins, green represents chlorophyll, and cyan represents carotenoids. The brighter the colors are, the more leaves there are in that area. The movement of these colors across the land areas show the seasonal changes over time.<\/p>\n<p>In areas like the evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest, plants undergo less seasonal change. The data highlights this, showing comparatively steadier colors as the year progresses.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of these three pigments helps scientists pinpoint even more information about plant health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShifts in these pigments, as detected by PACE, give novel information that may better describe vegetation growth, or when vegetation changes from flourishing to stressed,\u201d said McKibben. \u201cIt\u2019s just one of many ways the mission will drive increased understanding of our home planet and enable innovative, practical solutions that serve society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean Color Instrument on PACE collects hyperspectral data, which means it observes the planet in 100 different wavelengths of visible and near infrared light. It is the only instrument \u2013 in space or elsewhere \u2013 that provides hyperspectral coverage around the globe every one to two days. The PACE mission builds on the legacy of earlier missions, such as Landsat, which gathers higher resolution data but observes a fraction of those wavelengths.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/2150704X.2025.2470905#d1e162\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper recently published in Remote Sensing Letters<\/a>, scientists introduced the mission\u2019s first terrestrial data products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis PACE data provides a new view of Earth that will improve our understanding of ecosystem dynamics and function,\u201d said Fred Huemmrich, research professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, member of the PACE science and applications team, and first author of the paper. \u201cWith the PACE data, it\u2019s like we\u2019re looking at a whole new world of color. It allows us to describe pigment characteristics at the leaf level that we weren\u2019t able to do before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As scientists continue to work with these new data, available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/pace.oceansciences.org\/access_pace_data.htm\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PACE website<\/a>, they\u2019ll be able to incorporate it into future science applications, which may include forest monitoring or early detection of drought effects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:erica.s.mcnamee@nasa.gov\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Erica McNamee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"nasa-gb-align-full width-full maxw-full padding-x-3 padding-y-0 article_a hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-credits-and-details\">\n<section class=\"padding-x-0 padding-top-5 padding-bottom-2 desktop:padding-top-7 desktop:padding-bottom-9\">\n<div class=\"grid-row grid-container maxw-widescreen padding-0\">\n<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-2 padding-right-4 margin-bottom-5 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n<div class=\"padding-top-3 border-top-1px border-color-carbon-black\">\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n<h2 class=\"heading-14\">Share<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"padding-bottom-2\">\n<ul class=\"social-icons social-icons-round\">\n<li class=\"social-icon social-icon-x\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?via=NASA&#038;text=NASA%E2%80%99s%20PACE%20Mission%20Reveals%20a%20Year%20of%20Terrestrial%20Data%20on%20Plant%20Health&#038;%23038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fearth%2Fnasas-pace-mission-reveals-a-year-of-terrestrial-data-on-plant-health%2F\" aria-label=\"Share on X.\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg width=\"1200\" height=\"1227\" viewBox=\"0 0 1200 1227\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M714.163 519.284L1160.89 0H1055.03L667.137 450.887L357.328 0H0L468.492 681.821L0 1226.37H105.866L515.491 750.218L842.672 1226.37H1200L714.137 519.284H714.163ZM569.165 687.828L521.697 619.934L144.011 79.6944H306.615L611.412 515.685L658.88 583.579L1055.08 1150.3H892.476L569.165 687.854V687.828Z\" fill=\"white\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-icon social-icon-facebook\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fearth%2Fnasas-pace-mission-reveals-a-year-of-terrestrial-data-on-plant-health%2F\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook.\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M9 8h-3v4h3v12h5v-12h3.642l.358-4h-4v-1.667c0-.955.192-1.333 1.115-1.333h2.885v-5h-3.808c-3.596 0-5.192 1.583-5.192 4.615v3.385z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-icon social-icon-linkedin\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fearth%2Fnasas-pace-mission-reveals-a-year-of-terrestrial-data-on-plant-health%2F\" aria-label=\"Share on LinkedIn.\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M4.98 3.5c0 1.381-1.11 2.5-2.48 2.5s-2.48-1.119-2.48-2.5c0-1.38 1.11-2.5 2.48-2.5s2.48 1.12 2.48 2.5zm.02 4.5h-5v16h5v-16zm7.982 0h-4.968v16h4.969v-8.399c0-4.67 6.029-5.052 6.029 0v8.399h4.988v-10.131c0-7.88-8.922-7.593-11.018-3.714v-2.155z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-icon social-icon-rss\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feed\/\" aria-label=\"Subscribe to RSS feed.\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 800 800\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M493 652H392c0-134-111-244-244-244V307c189 0 345 156 345 345zm71 0c0-228-188-416-416-416V132c285 0 520 235 520 520z\"\/><circle cx=\"219\" cy=\"581\" r=\"71\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-5 padding-right-4 margin-bottom-5 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n<div class=\"padding-top-3 border-top-1px border-color-carbon-black\">\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n<h2 class=\"heading-14\">Details<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-row margin-bottom-3\">\n<div class=\"grid-col-4\">\n<div class=\"subheading\">Last Updated<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-col-8\">Jun 05, 2025<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-row margin-bottom-3\">\n<div class=\"grid-col-4\">\n<div class=\"subheading\">Editor<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-col-8\">Kate D. 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