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DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in flight over snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountain range | ||
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Photo Number: | EC98-44444-001 | |
Photo Date: | February 25, 1998 | |
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Formats: | 515x480 JPEG Image (102 KBytes) 1099x1024 JPEG Image (454 KBytes) 3000x2793 JPEG Image (3,916 KBytes) |
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Photo Description: |
NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory during a flight over the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains. Over the past several years the DC-8 has conducted research missions in such diverse places as the Pacific in spring and Sweden in winter. | |
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Project Description: |
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: | Jim Ross | |
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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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