NASA is researching the impacts of climate change in unexpected places. Their groundbreaking research is happening in the bay waters, all thanks to the "S-MODE."NASA has been tracking the impacts of climate in a place you might not expect the agency to do research. The work is being done in and over the ocean.
"We have a number of robotic drones, in the water collecting data," Czech said, "We also have three aircraft in the air. So it's a lot of platforms, looking at the ocean and trying to understand it better." NASA's S-MODE mission is working to understand it at a smaller level diving in deeper to understand how small parcels of water interact with each other, what kind of energy they produce and how that all contributes to the earth's climate.
The research is happening just 150 miles off the coast of San Francisco, an area researchers say is perfect for the kind of research they're doing."This particular part of the ocean, has a lot of the small scale eddies. So it's predictable," Czech said, "We know that if we're going to do a major campaign, we have a really good chance of finding these features that we really want to look at.