ATom Postcard - Alaska and the Arctic

  • Released Thursday, February 9th, 2017
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:47PM
  • ID: 12508

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.


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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center


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