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PIA22509: NASA's New 'Plant Thermometer' Undergoes Inspection

A technician inspects NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ECOSTRESS measures the temperature of plants, which shows how they are regulating their water use in response to heat stress.

Mission:	ECOSTRESS
Product Size:	768 x 512 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA22509.tif (1.121 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA22509.jpg (55.93 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

A technician inspects NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ECOSTRESS measures the temperature of plants, which shows how they are regulating their water use in response to heat stress.

JPL built and manages the ECOSTRESS mission for NASA's Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate in Washington. ECOSTRESS is sponsored by NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder program, managed by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

For more information on ECOSTRESS visit https://ecostress.jpl.nasa.gov/.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC

Image Addition Date:

2018-06-11