Remembering the SeaWiFs Launch

In 1997, scientists and engineers from Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) watch the launch of the Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFs), NASA’s revolutionary ocean color mission and the precursor to Hawkeye.

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[04-Dec-18] In 1997, scientists and engineers from Goddard Space Flight Center watch the launch of SeaWiFs, NASA's revolutionary ocean color mission and the precursor to Hawkeye. SeaWIFS (Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor) was active from September 1997 to December 2010, and its primary mission was to quantify chlorophyll produced by marine phytoplankton (microscopic plants).