2014. május 6., kedd

NASA's New Orbiter Will Watch Plants Photosynthesize from Space

NASA's New Orbiter Will Watch Plants Photosynthesize from Space


For the last 25 years, scientists have been able to monitor the "greenness" of trees from space and use that as a tool for evaluating plant health. The problem is that greenness isn't a good indicator for stresses—such as drought—because some trees (think pines) continue to be a lovely green until they're dead. Researchers are thus turning to a new indictor: The way plants glow .


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