“A NASA airborne mission designed to transform our understanding of Earth's valuable and ecologically sensitive coral reefs has set up shop in Australia for a two-month investigation of the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest reef ecosystem,” reports NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory today.
![Bleached and stressed coral on the Great Barrier Reef [NASA/JPL]](http://i2.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/coral.jpg?w=2000)