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Investigators of Hawaii's volcanoe, for example, are trying to fine-tune their model that accurately predicts how and when the "Vog" or vulcanic smogs formed from Kilauea's gas will cover Hawaii' towns instead of blasting across the Pacific. Others who investigate the ecosystem of reefs use the high-flying imagery to better understanding what makes the distinction between a prosperous and algal covered area.

The HyspIRI operation (or Hyperspectral Infrared Imager) will give scientists pictures of the Earth's surfaces similar to those now being collected in Hawaii and eco-systems around the worIndo. Hawaii's latest Hawaii research will help scientists find out exactly which tools and devices are most useful for their work and which should be downloaded to this spacecraft.

Finally, the spacecraft could be used to collect not only volcanic and coral information, but also many other characteristics that alter the Earth's surfaces over the course of the years, such as forest fires that are destroying plant life, thin glacier ices or changes in the state of the arable land's heath. Meanwhile, the Hawaii project is in full progress.

As part of the research team' s research program, the pictures taken by the instrumentation on board the plane can help scientists to detect changes in the colour of a riff, said Steven Ackleson, an oceansographer from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., located in Hawaii, to work on the program. "Riff pigment comes from both the zooxanthellas and the freshwater reefs themselves," Ackleson tells Life Science, using the science name for the algae-like creatures that symbiotically interact with the freshwater adenoids.

Scientists want to find out how best to extract information from the pictures to assess the corals' he said. Scientists working on the volcanic research are using the pictures to investigate the structure of the vapour trail coming from Kilauea and how it changes as it expands, said Vincent Realmuto, a geoscientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

An important part of the game is how the feathers impact on Hawaii's climate, Realmuto said. One of the questions that volcanologists are trying to find answers to with the new information is, for example, how quickly the sulphur dioxid gasses emitted by the vulcano are aerosolised, i.e. they combine with other fine dust particles, which can be detrimental to people' s wellbeing.

Mr Alberttson noted that even on launch, the new spacecraft does not make instrumentation on board and on the ground unnecessar. Terrestrial instrumentation can take readings on a much smaller scales than the spacecraft. However, the satellite's ability to obtain pictures of the whole planet in a relatively brief period of the year will be a major benefit for the team.

In order to put this into perspective, Mercury said, the present six-week endeavor captures imagery, using the Visual Light Cam, for most of Hawaii. He said that if this was on a spacecraft, the scientists could acquire the same image quality for the whole earth's expanse fourfold.