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High-Flying NASA Aircraft Helps Develop New Science Instruments
Over the next few weeks, an ER-2 high altitude research aircraft will take part in the development of two future satellite instruments.
NASA Global Hawk Watches Tropical Storm Nadine's 'Birth'
Tropical Depression 14 strengthened into Tropical Storm Nadine while NASA's Global Hawk aircraft captured the event. While the Global Hawk was gathering data over the storm, NASA satellites were also analyzing Nadine from space.
NASA's HS3 Mission Begins with Flight to Hurricane Leslie
NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight that began in California and ended in Virginia.
Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
HS3 will study hurricanes at the end of the summer, flying two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments over the storms.
NASA's New Way to Track Formaldehyde
Urban pollution, such as formaldehyde, that winds up in Earth's upper atmosphere can wreak havoc on the ozone layer.
NASA ER-2 Collects Perseid Meteor Shower Dust
NASA's ER-2 is using underwing Large Area Collectors to collect cosmic dust during the Perseid meteor shower the second week of August.
NASA Conducts Airborne Study of Colorado Landslide
Radar images of Colorado's centuries-old Slumgullion landslide from NASA's C-20A Earth science aircraft aid scientists' understanding of slide motion.
Hurricane Study a Challenge to Global Hawk Pilots
NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission will require Global Hawk pilots to fly the unmanned aircraft from two locations on opposite coasts.
When Wildfire Smoke and Thunderstorms Collide
The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) airborne campaign got an up-close look at what happens when wildfire smoke makes its way into a thunderstorm.
College Students Study the Earth From NASA's P-3B Flying Lab
Thirty-two undergraduate and graduate students are participating in a NASA Airborne Science Program field experience at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. this week designed to immerse them in the agency's Earth science research.
NASA C-20A Wrapping up Iceland Ice Caps Survey
Flight and ground crew of NASA's environmental science research aircraft host visit by U.S. ambassador to Iceland during stay in Keflavik.
Teachers Experience Arctic Research with IceBridge
During the 2012 Arctic campaign, teachers from the United States, Denmark and Greenland joined IceBridge researchers as they surveyed Greenland's sea ice, ice sheet and glaciers.
NASA Airborne Radar Studies Icelandic Ice Caps
A NASA science aircraft carrying a specially designed synthetic aperture radar is currently in Iceland as part of a study to derive 3D surface velocity fields for two of the country's ice caps.
NASA DC-8, NCAR G-V Continue Bumpy Science Flights
Two flying science laboratories fly around thunderstorm cores and anvil clouds over the central U.S. during NCAR's DC3 atmospheric science campaign.
NASA Science Grips Two Brothers
Two principal researchers on several airborne sensors had more in common than conducting atmospheric research. Gerry and Andy Heymsfield are brothers.
NASA Sending Unmanned Aircraft Over Hurricanes
Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above stormy skies to help researchers and forecasters uncover information about hurricane formation and intensity changes.
DC3 Thunderstorm Study Science Flights Underway
Complex environmental science campaign over central U.S. to aid scientists' understanding of how large thunderstorms affect atmospheric chemistry.
2012 Arctic IceBridge Complete
The NASA P-3 has returned home to Wallops Flight Facility after completing a record number of science flight hours for Operation IceBridge.
DC3: Chemistry of Thunderstorms
NASA researchers begin a campaign that will take them into the heart of thunderstorm country.
NASA's ER-2 Completes MABEL Validation Deployment
The weather, the aircraft and the science instruments cooperated to successfully validate data from the MABEL laser altimeter planned for IceSat-2.
NASA Langley Aircraft Joins Operation IceBridge
NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., deployed its newly acquired HU-25C jet as part of NASA's Operation IceBridge.
Good Ice Sheet Data Obtained on MABEL Flights
Recent validation flights of the MABEL laser altimeter on NASA's ER-2 are recording data on sea and land-ice elevation and thickness.
IceBridge: A New Home and a New Engine
IceBridge scientists and crew finished the first round of survey flights from Thule, Greenland and moved their base of operations south to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.
NASA ER-2 Completes MABEL Science Flight Over Greenland
A NASA ER-2 completed the first MABEL laser altimeter validation flight over northwest Greenland on Easter Sunday.
NASA ER-2 Arrives in Iceland for MABEL Validation
A NASA ER-2 Earth science aircraft has arrived in Keflavik, Iceland, to begin a series of flights to confirm the accuracy of a new laser altimeter.
IceBridge International Collaboration
NASA’s Operation IceBridge and the European Space Agency’s CryoVEx campaign coordinated flights of two aircraft from different locations over the Arctic Ocean on a track flown shortly before by ESA’s CryoSat-2 spacecraft.
NASA ER-2 to Check Out MABEL Laser Altimeter
A NASA ER-2 Earth Resources aircraft will fly a number of high-altitude missions this spring to validate the accuracy of a new laser altimeter.
NASA's IceBridge 2012 Arctic Campaign Takes to the Skies
Researchers and flight crew with NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in polar ice, begin the 2012 Arctic campaign.
NASA Plans Airborne Scientific Study in Southeast Asia
Researchers will probe the Southeast Asian atmosphere at a time when weather systems and air pollution pump chemicals and particles high into the air.
UAVSAR Installed on JSC G-III for AirMOSS Study
Technicians at NASA Dryden recently installed a synthetic aperture radar on a Johnson Space Center Gulfstream III for planned Earth science mission.