Our three-year COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) mission will survey portions of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to assess the condition of this threatened ecosystem, using advanced airborne and in-water measurements. The investigation also will assess the reefs of Palau, the Mariana Islands and Hawaii. Watch & learn more: | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Home to corals, sponges, invertebrates, and fish, an underwater seascape of cold-water coral mounds offshore the southeast United States has been deemed the largest deep-sea coral reef habitat discovered to date. Covering 6.4 million acres, this comprehensive mapping effort reveals the complete scope and characteristics of deep-sea coral mounds. It enhances our understanding of the slow-growing, long-lived, and fragile cold-water coral connectivity across separated locales, providing valuable in