ATom B-Roll
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
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 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
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
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Writer
- Ellen T. Gray (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Videographer
- Steve Parcel (AFRC)
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Scientists
- Steven Wofsy (Harvard University)
- Michael Prather (University of California, Irvine)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, January 31, 2017.
This page was last updated on Monday, July 15, 2024 at 12:12 AM EDT.