Key Points
Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things in the world have stubbornly guarded their secrets: aerosols and phytoplankton..
The missions findings could be a key to understanding how drastically the world is changing as it warms...
Phytoplankton are basically moving carbon around, and we need to understand how that changes with time, says Jeremy Werdell of NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center...
The warming atmosphere and warming oceans have a cost, and that cost from a biological point of view is that the base of the food chain will unequivocally change, says Werdell, who is the project scientist of PACE...
There are thousands upon thousands of phytoplankton speciessome that act as food for tiny animals known as zooplankton, others that are highly toxic, some that sequester carbon better than others..
