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From Space, a Global View of Autumn's Changing Leaves

The US space agency, NASA, operates the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite. This spacecraft is known as PACE. It is the first spacecraft that can measure three main leaf pigments across the globe. It does this every one to two days. On board is the hyperspectral Ocean Color Instrument, or OCI. It observes Earth's oceans and land plants each…

Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA Earth Observatory. Read the original for the full report.