The Science of Smoke Illustrated | NASA's PACE Earth Satellite Mission

The Science of Smoke Illustrated | NASA's PACE Earth Satellite Mission

Smoke is not a monolithic thing. Smoke is a mixture of gases, liquids, and primarily particles that are also known as aerosols. NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission is gathering data on these aerosols so that we can get a better picture of how smoke interacts with the atmosphere, and all kinds of far-reaching effects.

The data from PACE will help inform wildfire models, but also give us a general better sense of how aerosols from smoke impact things like air quality, human health, weather, cloud formation and other aspects of how our planet Earth works.

Learn more about NASA's PACE Earth Mission: https://pace.gsfc.nasa.gov

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Ryan Fitzgibbons (eMITS/AMA): Producer, Animator, Editor
Kirk Knobelspiesse (NASA GSFC): Scientist, Writer, Narrator
Duration: 3 minutes, 27 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 13, 2026

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