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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.

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission will require Global Hawk pilots to fly the unmanned aircraft from two locations on opposite coasts.

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.

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.

Flight and ground crew of NASA's environmental science research aircraft host visit by U.S. ambassador to Iceland during stay in Keflavik.

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.

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.

Two flying science laboratories fly around thunderstorm cores and anvil clouds over the central U.S. during NCAR's DC3 atmospheric science campaign.

Two principal researchers on several airborne sensors had more in common than conducting atmospheric research. Gerry and Andy Heymsfield are brothers.

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.

Complex environmental science campaign over central U.S. to aid scientists' understanding of how large thunderstorms affect atmospheric chemistry.

The NASA P-3 has returned home to Wallops Flight Facility after completing a record number of science flight hours for Operation IceBridge.

NASA researchers begin a campaign that will take them into the heart of thunderstorm country.

The weather, the aircraft and the science instruments cooperated to successfully validate data from the MABEL laser altimeter planned for IceSat-2.

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., deployed its newly acquired HU-25C jet as part of NASA's Operation IceBridge.

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 scientists and crew finished the first round of survey flights from Thule, Greenland and moved their base of operations south to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.