GEMx Illustrations

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Conceptual illustration depicting the ER-2 aircraft and the AVIRIS instrument searching for critical minerals as part of the GEMx campaign.

Conceptual illustration depicting the ER-2 aircraft and the AVIRIS instrument searching for critical minerals as part of the GEMx campaign.

The Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx) research project uses NASA's Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) instrument flown on NASA's ER-2 to collect the measurements over the country's arid and semi-arid regions, including parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Conceptual illustration depicting the ER-2 aircraft and the AVIRIS instrument searching for critical minerals as part of the GEMx campaign. Textless

Conceptual illustration depicting the ER-2 aircraft and the AVIRIS instrument searching for critical minerals as part of the GEMx campaign. Textless

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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