How NASA Is Homing in From Space on Ocean Debris
via essd.copernicus.org
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Detergent bottles and other litter can travel thousands of miles across the ocean before washing up on the remote Island of Kaho’olawe in Hawaii. JPL remote-sensing technology recently showed that it can spot plastic pollution on land, but doing so in the sea presents challenges. NOAA Space-based technology could help track plastic and other flotsam […]