ATom B-Roll

  • Released Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
  • Updated Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 at 12:20AM
  • ID: 12488

The Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission takes flight through Earth's atmosphere to understand how short-lived greenhouse gases like ozone and methane contribute to climate change. A suite of instruments aboard NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory will be taking measurements as the science team flies down the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to the southern tip of South America, then north up the Atlantic to Greenland to measure more than 200 gases and particles in the air and their interactions around the world.

B-roll available here is from the July 28, 2016, science flight from to the equator and back from Palmdale, California.

For more information:
NASA Airborne Study Surveys Greenhouse Gases in World Tour: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-airborne-study-surveys-greenhouse-gases-in-world-tour
NASA Airborne mission Chases Air Pollution Through the Seasons: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-airborne-mission-chases-air-pollution-through-the-seasons

ATom 1 Flight Path

ATom 2 Flight Path

ATom 3 Flight Path

ATom 4 Flight Plan

DC-8 Flight Pattern

The second world­survey of the atmosphere has begun! NASA’s Atmospheric Tomography or ATom mission completed its first science flight to the equator and back on January 26. Tour the DC­8 flying laboratory loaded withair­sampling instruments and out intrepid science team.

Credit: Chelsea Thompson

Video by Steve Parcel

Video by Steve Parcel

Video by Steve Parcel

Video by Steve Parcel

Video by Steve Parcel

Video by Steve Parcel

Video by Steve Parcel

DC-8 Takeoff

Video by Steve Parcel

Video by Steve Parcel

Sea ice in the Arctic as seen from ATom’s DC-8 in Janaury, 2017.Credit: NASA / Róisín Commane

Sea ice in the Arctic as seen from ATom’s DC-8 in Janaury, 2017.

Credit: NASA / Róisín Commane

ATom is investigating the atmosphere above the remote oceans. Above the Atlantic ocean near Ascension Island, the research team saw haze from African fires during ATom’s February, 2017, flight.Credit: NASA

ATom is investigating the atmosphere above the remote oceans. Above the Atlantic ocean near Ascension Island, the research team saw haze from African fires during ATom’s February, 2017, flight.

Credit: NASA

The DC-8 is a research laboratory that has inlets in place of windows to draw air into ATom’s 20 instruments while it flies through the air.Credit: NASA / Róisín Commane

The DC-8 is a research laboratory that has inlets in place of windows to draw air into ATom’s 20 instruments while it flies through the air.

Credit: NASA / Róisín Commane

The DC-8 at sunset on ATom’s second deployment in February, 2017.Credit: NASA / National Center for Atmospheric Research / Becky Hornbrook

The DC-8 at sunset on ATom’s second deployment in February, 2017.

Credit: NASA / National Center for Atmospheric Research / Becky Hornbrook

The DC-8 flies over Terceira Island in the Azores of the North Atlantic ocean, February, 2017.Credit: NASA

The DC-8 flies over Terceira Island in the Azores of the North Atlantic ocean, February, 2017.

Credit: NASA

Researcher photographing the sea ice as the DC-8 flies over the Arctic, January, 2017.Credit: NASA / National Center for Atmospheric Research / Sam Hall

Researcher photographing the sea ice as the DC-8 flies over the Arctic, January, 2017.

Credit: NASA / National Center for Atmospheric Research / Sam Hall

Credits

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center