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News media, social media followers and educators learn about NASA's airborne Earth and environmental science program, briefed on current and upcoming missions.

David Starr, project scientist of the PODEX experiment, discusses a new class of instruments that could reshape the next generation of atmospheric science.

Residents in Calif.'s San Joaquin Valley will see some unusual air traffic over their region in January and February of 2013 -- two NASA aircraft will fly between Bakersfield and Fresno - one as close as 1,000 feet to the ground – to measure air pollution with a number of onboard science instruments.

Starting this month NASA will start the first flights of the Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX).

Sea ice thickness data gathered in April 2012 by NASA's Operation IceBridge has been used in seasonal sea ice forecasts for the first time.

After a maintenance period that included several upgrades, the high-altitude aircraft is ready for new series of Earth and space science missions.

NASA's P-3B, other science aircraft and several airborne Earth science missions to be focus of Jan. 25 event at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

NASA / GA-ASI agreement covers development and flight testing of new command and control system to enable operations in remote geographical regions.

Researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge recently completed a five-week field campaign based out of Punta Arenas, Chile.

JPL's synthetic aperture radar carried by NASA's C-20A can document any subtle deformation in the Earth's surface along the central San Andreas Fault.

NASA's 2012 HS3 mission came to an end Nov. 6 when an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flew a final data-collection mission in the North Pacific Ocean.

NASA's Operation IceBridge closed out its 2012 Antarctic season with two surveys of Antarctic glaciers and two long-awaited flights over sea ice in the Weddell Sea.

U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Alejandro Wolff, and his Secretary for Economic Affairs, Josanda Jinnette, flew onboard the NASA DC-8 over Antarctica on October 25, 2012

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have developed a method to use a specialized NASA 3-D imaging radar to characterize the oil in oil spills, such as the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The research can be used to improve response operations during future marine oil spills.

NASA's Airborne Science C-20A, carrying a synthetic aperture radar, recently completed a study of volcanoes in Alaska, Aleutian Islands and Japan.

Scientists and flight crew members with NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's polar ice are beginning another Antarctic campaign.

NASA Earth explorers will take students on virtual trips around the world to inspire them to pursue science, technology, engineering and math careers.

A NASA ER-2 is conducting engineering evaluations of and collecting science data with TWiLiTE and NAST-I atmospheric sensors.

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel scientists had a fascinating tropical cyclone to study in long-lived Hurricane Nadine.  NASA's Global Hawk aircraft has investigated Nadine five times during the storm's lifetime.

NASA's Airborne Science C-20A, carrying JPL's UAVSAR sensor, travels to Alaska and Japan this week for a radar imaging study of active volcanoes.

Scientists are currently flying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments that are gathering difficult-to-obtain measurements of wind speeds, precipitation, and cloud structures in and around tropical storms.

The Sensor Integrated Environmental Remote Research Aircraft (SIERRA) allows scientists to explore hidden underground substructures below Surprise Valley fault.

Over the next few weeks, an ER-2 high altitude research aircraft will take part in the development of two future satellite instruments.

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 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.

HS3 will study hurricanes at the end of the summer, flying two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments over the storms.

Urban pollution, such as formaldehyde, that winds up in Earth's upper atmosphere can wreak havoc on the ozone layer.

NASA's ER-2 is using underwing Large Area Collectors to collect cosmic dust during the Perseid meteor shower the second week of August.

Radar images of Colorado's centuries-old Slumgullion landslide from NASA's C-20A Earth science aircraft aid scientists' understanding of slide motion.