Why did NASA stop exploring the ocean? TikTok videos raise questions
memes_to_click A recent TikTok video falsely claimed that NASA’s “original mission” was to explore the ocean. But does it have any truth? If so, why did NASA stop exploring the ocean? What did they find in the sea?
Why did NASA stop exploring the ocean?
this memes_to_click TikTok videosA week ago, Newsweek verified and debunked the false claim that NASA’s original purpose was ocean exploration.
It also claims that after discovering something, NASA’s plans “suddenly” turned into space exploration — or in its own words, “let’s get off this planet as soon as possible.”
As the sun emerges behind dark clouds, ocean waves overlooking a rocket about to launch from SpaceX’s Kennedy Space Center illuminate the view of the launch pad.
What did NASA find in the ocean?
That’s the question TikTok videos ask you to ask. However, it misses the point. NASA’s founding principles had nothing to do with exploring the ocean.
Newsweek presents fact. NASA’s original goals were:
- Expanding human understanding of phenomena space
- Improve performance aviation and space car
- Development of vehicles capable of carrying cargo and people into space
- Establish long-term studies to utilize aviation and space Activities for Peaceful and Scientific Purposes
- Preserving America’s Role as a Leader aviation and space science
NASA’s purpose is not to explore the ocean. This is to explore space and atmosphere.
Is NASA Involved in Ocean Exploration? Has it ever explored the ocean?
Yes, but probably not in the way you think.
NASA commissioned the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 1959.
Among other things, GSFC develops satellite systems for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), established in 1970.
NOAA Monitors and observes the weather and climate system, analyzes the data it collects to understand and predict changes in the weather system, and advises the public and partner organizations on its findings.
The Office of Oceanographic Exploration Research (OER) is a division of NOAA that actually supports expeditions and exploration programs. So while its funding and/or organizational influence may come from NASA, its expeditions are not actually NASA’s business.
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NASA and ESSP
NASA also through its Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) tasks.
For example, gravity recovery and climate experiments (grace) is a joint mission launched in 2018 by NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to measure gravitational anomalies.
Gravity anomalies occur when the distribution of water around Earth changes. While such measurements certainly involve water and the ocean, they are not ocean exploration per se.
At the same time, NASA Aquarius mission (launched 2008) Measure and map the salinity of Earth’s oceans, and how salt moves across the planet.
But both missions are exploring the ocean from space. They mainly collect data from satellites.
How much ocean is untapped?
NOAA estimate Over 80% of the Earth’s oceans are unmapped, unobserved and unexplored.
The reason for this is completely inaccessible part of the world’s oceans.
Marine biologists investigate bleached corals
Below a certain depth, nothing could be seen, it was cold, and the intense pressure crushed anything that wasn’t supposed to be below.
“When diving to the bottom of the Mariana Trench nearly 7 miles deep, you’re talking about pressure more than 1,000 times the surface pressure,” NASA oceanographer Gene Carl Feldman told Oceana.
“That’s the weight of 50 jumbo jets on you.”
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Bruno is a novelist, amateur screenwriter and journalist with interests in digital media, storytelling, film and politics. He has lived in France, China, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, but returned to the UK in 2020 to pursue a degree (and because of the pandemic). His articles appear in Groundviews, Forge Press, and The Friday Poem, most of which are available at Medium or onurbicycle.com.
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