ATom Postcard - Punta Arenas to Ascension Island
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- Written by:
- Ellen T. Gray
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- Produced by:
- Michael Randazzo
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- Videography:
- Steve S. Parcel
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- Technical support:
- Aaron E. Lepsch
- View full credits
Postcard #3
Atmospheric scientist Róisín Commane and Principal Investigator Steven Wofsy both of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from the Atlantic legs of the Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom mission. The science team left Christchurch New Zealand and traveled past Antarctica to Punta Arenas, Chile at the bottom of the world. Then they went up the Atlantic Ocean to Ascension Island, just south of the equator.
The ATom mission aboard NASA’s DC-8 aircraft and flying laboratory is sampling world-wide in one of the most extensive surveys of the atmosphere to date, measuring over 200 gases as well as airborne particles. The science team is particularly interested in methane, tropospheric ozone and black carbon particles, which have strong effects on climate and which all have both human and natural origins.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Science writer
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ) [Lead]
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Scientist
- Roisin Commane (Harvard University)
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Producer
- Michael Randazzo (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.) [Lead]
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Videographer
- Steve S. Parcel (Arcata) [Lead]
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.) [Lead]
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Principal investigator
- Steven Wofsy (Harvard University) [Lead]
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