NASA Could Help Make It a Very Good Year

NASA is uncorking a bid to bring science down to Earth by developing satellite images that show vintners where their best grapes are located.

The images help vintners with hundreds of acres harvest their best grapes at the same time and use them to produce their best wine.

The photos are shot 400 miles above Earth and have been used to monitor everything from leaf sizes to water irrigation patterns, said Lee Johnson, a senior researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

NASA is developing the technology, which it hopes to make available on a widespread basis in several years.

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Compiled by Times medical writer Thomas H. Maugh II