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ARISE is a new NASA airborne science mission. It stands for Arctic Radiation IceBridge

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Sea and Ice Experiement. And it's a mission to use to an aircraft

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to go to the Arctic and study the affects of global warming

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in a region that's really important.

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In the Arctic the temperatures are warming about twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

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One of the impacts of the warming in the Arctic is the vast amounts

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of sea ice are now melting every summer.

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We expect that clouds are also changing in the Arctic, but we don't know

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whether the clouds are going to offset or enhance the warming

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effect that we expect from melting sea ice. HANSEN: One of the biggest

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challenges with this new ARISE mission was pulling together

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all the mission objectives, the logistics the aircraft

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where we're going to deploy to in less than seven months, which is typically unheard of.

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We usually have over a year to do all of that stuff, so when I was assigned

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to lead the project in March, the idea was, Christy, we need everything pulled together to

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support an August deployment. Can you support this, this new

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mission. It didn't have a name yet, it didn't have specific science objectives,

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it didn't necessarily have an aircraft. So we're using the

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Wallops NASA C-130, essentially because it's a platform that

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is set up to support experiments. It can take on a lot of different instrumentation

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The four engine turboprop plane provides more maneuverablity for a lot

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the wide breadth of science objectives that we want to do. Also it's available

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to support our science so. We only have seven months, it's an available aircraft.

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Can it meet our needs? Yes, it can. So we're going with it.

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One of the things I really enjoyed with working on ARISE is this element of cooperation.

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I'm really proud of the team. I feel excited to be part of this mission.

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And most of all, the entire scientific community out there is really excited about seeing all of our

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new data sets for the first time.

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