Instruments in the Sea and Sky: NASA's S-MODE Mission Kicks Off

Narration: Kathleen Gaeta

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We're about 10 miles. These

drones are sailing in the S-MODE

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mission, they're going to be

deployed just outside the Golden

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Gate Bridge and the op area is

actually in the San Francisco

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Bay approaches out past the

Faroe Islands we've got two

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drones deployed today we've got

Saildrone Support one, we're

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two. We're carrying 1062 out

there and they're taken 1072

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Yeah, so, in short, we trying to

understand and measure as well

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as possible the currents that

allow for deep water which

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nutrients to go to the surface

basically when they can be

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useful for life.

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In the video mission is just

that we are combining all the

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effort that we can at the same

time which is airborne, but also

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like some some boats are getting

ready as we speak to also go

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where we are to like, sample

exactly the structure when we

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see them and some of the team

are using gliders to like do the

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same thing and like see, you

know, traces of biology for

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instance, while other looks at

currents. I look at the just the

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temperature. And we try to just

combine all of our effort all

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together to get like the most

complete picture of the

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structure