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Rachel Cohen is a Bay Area freelance writer, presently serving an internship with Climate Watch.<\/em><\/p>\n

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NASA's GRACE satellite is equipped to gather ice and water data on the Earth's surface. Image: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To boldly go–where we already live<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Rachel Cohen<\/p>\n

NASA will likely be focusing more attention on the “pale blue dot” in coming years, with a reinvigorated Earth Science Program<\/a>. California\u2019s freshwater supply<\/a> and sea level change<\/a> are among the features that will be studied by replacing an aging satellite.<\/p>\n

The proposed White House budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration includes billions of dollars for satellites and other tech tools to help scientists investigate Earth-bound problems, especially climate change. Part of the program will be steered from Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a>, which will manage two key missions connected with the program. JPL spokesman Alan Buis says the White House support may provide stability for gathering the kind of long-term data sets needed to study gradual changes in earth systems.<\/p>\n

As Jon Hamilton reports in his\u00a0 story for NPR’s Morning Edition<\/em><\/a>, the centerpiece of the program will be the GRACE satellite which will collect data critical for a variety of models and applications, including:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 The changing mass of polar ice caps
\n\u00b7 Changes in water resources on land
\n\u00b7 Shallow and deep ocean current transport mechanisms
\n\u00b7 Sea level change resulting from ocean temperature and water mass changes
\n\u00b7 Exchanges between the oceans and atmosphere
\n\u00b7 Forces that generate Earth\u2019s geomagnetic field, and
\n\u00b7 Internal Earth forces that move tectonic plates and result in earthquakes and volcanic eruptions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

GRACE has been in orbit since 2002 and is due to be replaced. NASA suffered a severe setback when its Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite crashed after its launch early last year. The White House budget includes funding to rebuild the vehicle and relaunch<\/a> in February of 2013. The OCO2 satellite is designed to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, specifically comparing sources of CO2 to “sinks,” where it is stored.<\/p>\n

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