Earth ID: 12488

ATom B-Roll

Released on January 31, 2017

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

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

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

Credits

Ellen T. Gray (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Lead Writer
Steve Parcel (AFRC): Videographer
Steven Wofsy (Harvard University): Scientist
Michael Prather (University of California, Irvine): Scientist

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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