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VIP tour of NASA DFRC's DC-8 during the AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica campaign. |
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Photo Number: | ED04-0056-035 |
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Formats: | 578x480 JPEG Image (145 KBytes) 1233x1024 JPEG Image (518 KBytes) 2889x2400 JPEG Image (2359 KBytes) |
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Photo Description: |
VIP tour of NASA DFRC's DC-8 airborne laboratory during the AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica campaign given by Craig Dobson, NASA Program Manager for AirSAR, L-R: Dr. Sonia Marta Mora, President of the Costa Rican National Rector’s Council; NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe; Fernando Gutierrez, Costa Rican Minister of Science and Technology(MICIT); Mr. John Danilovich, US Ambassador to Costa Rica; and Dobson.
AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica is a three-week expedition by an international team of scientists that will use an all-weather imaging tool, called the Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR), in a mission ranging from the tropical rain forests of Central America to frigid Antarctica. |
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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, Airborne Science, AirSAR, Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, Central America, Costa Rica, Craig Dobson, NASA Program Manager for AirSAR, Dr. Sonia Marta Mora, President of the Costa Rican National Rector’s Council, Sean O'Keefe, Fernando Gutierrez, Costa Rican Minister of Science and Technology, MICIT, Mr. John Danilovich, US Ambassador to Costa Rica |
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