PIA25523: S-MODE Saildrone in San Francisco Waters
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  S-MODE 
 Product Size:  2817 x 1582 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  NASA
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As part of NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) field campaign, several Saildrones like the one pictured here were launched from San Francisco Bay. The Saildrones were part of a fleet of autonomous marine research vessels designed to measure a vast array of factors such as ocean currents, wind speed and direction, air and water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll content.

S-MODE is a NASA Earth mission to use newly developed in-situ and remote-sensing techniques to look at small-scale ocean whirlpools, eddies, and currents. The observations could help scientists better understand how these dynamics drive the give-and-take of material and energy between the ocean and atmosphere and, ultimately, help shape Earth's climate.

More information about S-MODE is at https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE

Image Credit:
NASA

Image Addition Date:
2022-10-11