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DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in flight over Mint Canyon near the San Gabriel Mountains |
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| Photo Number: |
EC98-44428-003 |
| Photo Date: |
February 20, 1998 |
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529x480 JPEG Image (110 KBytes)
1128x1023 JPEG Image (533 KBytes)
3000x2722 JPEG Image (5,331 KBytes)
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Photo
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NASA DC-8 airborne laboratory flying over Mint Canyon near the snow-covered San Gabriel Mountains of California. The mostly white aircraft is silhouetted against the darker mountains in the background. |
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Project
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NASA used a DC-8 aircraft as a flying science laboratory. The platform aircraft, was based at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., collected data for many experiments in support of scientific projects serving the world scientific community. Included in this community were NASA, federal, state, academic and foreign investigators. Data gathered by the DC-8 at flight altitude and by remote sensing has been used for scientific studies in archeology, ecology, geography, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, volcanology, atmospheric chemistry, soil science and biology. |
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| NASA Photo by: |
Carla Thomas |
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| Keywords: |
DC-8; science platform; oceanography; meteorology; soil science; archeology; ecology; geography; hydrology; volcanology; atmospheric chemistry; and biology |
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