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The aircraft, based at the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center facility in Palmdale, California, is used to collect data for experiments in support of projects serving the world's scientific community, including Antarctic flights as part of Operation IceBridge. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 13444, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13444/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge - Antarctic Transits", "description": "NASA is carrying out its sixth consecutive year of Operation IceBridge research flights over Antarctica in 2014 to study changes in the continent’s ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice. For several weeks, researchers flew aboard NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft out of Punta Arenas, Chile. || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 13445, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13445/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge - Crew Activity Oboard", "description": "NASA's P-3B and DC-8 airborne laboratories have been the workhorses of Operation IceBridge. These aircraft house several sophisticated instruments for measuring snow depth, ice elevation and thickness, surface temperature, bed topography and other characteristics of sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 13262, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13262/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-07-22T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA and NOAA Take to the Air to Chase Smoke", "description": "Music: Broad Horizons by Chris White [PRS]Complete transcript available. || Still.png (1773x995) [3.3 MB] || Still_print.jpg (1024x574) [163.4 KB] || Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [119.4 KB] || Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || TWITTER_720_13692_FIREExKickoff_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [27.0 MB] || 13692_FIREExKickoff.webm (960x540) [44.5 MB] || 13262_FIREExKickoff.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13692_FIREExKickoff_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [207.3 MB] || 13262_FIREEx.en_US.srt [2.9 KB] || 13262_FIREEx.en_US.vtt [2.9 KB] || ", "hits": 226 }, { "id": 12731, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12731/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-10-05T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Around the World in 11 Research Flights: Behind the Scenes of the ATom Mission", "description": "For the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission, researchers and flight technicians from NASA and its partners are flying around the world, collecting atmospheric samples and studying air quality.This is the the third ATom campaign, studying the atmosphere during autumn in the northern hemisphere. ATom campaigns last a long time -- almost a full month -- and require the researchers and crew to travel the whole time. Rather than work from one static location, the ATom team uses NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory as a home base. Atmospheric scientist Róisín Commane and ATom principal investigator Steven Wofsy gave a look behind the scenes at a month on a research plane. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 12685, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12685/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-08-15T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Expedition: Taking in Some Arctic Air", "description": "Last week, NASA's DC-8 plane flew over Alaska and Canada, measuring carbon dioxide and methane in the Arctic air. The plane carried five instruments to make these measurements for the Active Sensing of Carbon dioxide Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons (ASCENDS) experiment.All part of NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), the science team is studying how the Arctic is changing in a warming climate. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 12683, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12683/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-08-10T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Expedition: Spiraling Above Canada to Measure Carbon", "description": "High above Alaska and Canada, researchers from NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) are studying carbon emissions from a DC-8 plane. The plane carries new lidar instruments to measure concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in the air, far below the aircraft. The plane also carries instruments that can measure carbon concentrations with extreme accuracy, but only from up-close.To check the accuracy of the lidar measurements, the team needs to fly the plane down to the lower altitudes the lidar is studying. Taking measurements at every altitude is no easy feat. The plane flies in looping spirals down to just about 100 feet above the ground, and then spirals back up to about 30,000 feet, taking measurements the whole time. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 12540, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12540/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ATom Postcard - Ascension Island to the Azores Islands", "description": "Atmospheric scientist Róisín Commane of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from Ascension Island and the Azores Islands, the seventh and eighth legs of the Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom mission. 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On its second worldwide tour, the ATom team flew into Kona, Hawaii, to study small particles like sulfate and nitrate in the atmosphere. Volcanoes like Kilauea, in Hawaii, constantly release sulfate particles, which can oxidize to make sulfuric acid, a component of acid rain. 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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-tourNASA Airborne mission Chases Air Pollution Through the Seasons: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-airborne-mission-chases-air-pollution-through-the-seasons || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 3907, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3907/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory Flight Path Jan 19, 2012", "description": "NASA is flying an airborne science laboratory through Canadian snowstorms for six weeks in support of a difficult task of the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission: measuring snowfall from space. GPM is an international satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2014 that will provide next-generation observations of worldwide rain and snow every three hours. It is the first precipitation mission designed to detect falling snow from space. NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory flew this flight path on Jan 19, 2012 in support of NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) snow study. The GCPEx field campaign will help scientists match measurements of snow in the air and on the ground. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 10890, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10890/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-01-10T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Airborne Cold Weather Experiment Measures Falling Snow", "description": "NASA is flying an airborne science laboratory through Canadian snowstorms for six weeks in support of a difficult task of the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission: measuring snowfall from space. GPM is an international satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2014 that will provide next-generation observations of worldwide rain and snow every three hours. It is the first precipitation mission designed to detect falling snow from space. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 10693, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10693/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "IceBridge Antarctic Peninsula Flight Highlights - Nov. 13, 2010", "description": "The IceBridge science team and DC-8 crew flew a mission over the Antarctic Peninsula on Saturday, November 13th. This video provides a snapshot of the flight from the field and describes the challenges faced with weather and terrain. All instruments collected data for several glaciers before the weather conditions forced an early return to Punta Arenas. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 10678, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10678/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-10-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IceBridge Kicks Off Antarctic 2010 Campaign", "description": "On October 18th, NASA's Operation IceBridge scientists and the DC-8 crew departed for Punta Arenas, Chile where they will begin the Antarctic 2010 phase of the mission. For the next five weeks, instrumnents aboard the DC-8 will collect data to determine surface elevation and ice characteristics near and over Antarctica. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 10655, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10655/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-09-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Hurricane Hunters", "description": "During the 2010 hurricane season, NASA deployed its piloted DC-8 and WB-57, and unmanned Global Hawk aircraft in a massive effort to collect as much data as possible, arming hurricane researchers with the information needed to predict the growth and intensification of hurricanes. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 10639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10639/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-09-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Q&A with NASA Hurricane Expert", "description": "NASA's Hurricane expert Dr. Jeff Halverson explains how NASA's GRIP mission is keeping a close eye on Hurricane Earl and other storms over the Atlantic. Scientists use data collected from NASA's DC-8, Global Hawk and WB-57 aircraft to study the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Process that hurricanes undergo as they become major storms. || ", "hits": 7 }, { "id": 10603, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10603/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic 2010 Video File - April 23, 2010", "description": "NASA's Operation IceBridge enters the second phase of the Arctic 2010 campaign in Greenland. Next week, NASA's DC-8 aircraft will return from Thule Air Base in Greenland to Dryden Flight Research Center in California. The fully equipped P-3B airplane will deploy from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland for the remainder of the mission. The mission is measuring the Arctic ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 10597, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10597/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge's 2010 Arctic Campaign Takes Off: Reporters Package", "description": "NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicked off its second year of study in late March 2010. The IceBridge mission allows scientists to track changes in the extent and thickness of polar ice, which is important to understanding ice dynamics. IceBridge began in March 2009 as a means to fill the gap in polar observations between the loss of NASA's ICESat satellite and the launch of ICESat-2, planned for 1015. Annual missions fly over the Arctic in March and April and over the Antarctic in October and November. 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An ER-2 allows for eight dropsondes deliveries, while the fully staffed DC-8 plane drops as many as 15 dropsondes within the hurricane. || ", "hits": 37 } ] }