The ATom-1 campaign has begun! It has been a busy Monday here in Palmdale. The Medusa, NOyO3, and QCLS teams arrived today, while the CAFS, CIT-CIMS, DLH, HR-AMS, and SP2 teams are spending a few more days here to reconfigure. Quincy is taking inventory and preparing the sea container headed for Christchurch. Here’s the plan for tomorrow...
Airborne Study Surveys Greenhouse Gases in World Tour
The first deployment of one of NASA's most ambitious research studies of Earth's atmosphere will take place this July and August. The Atmospheric Tomography mission will take off aboard the agency's DC-8 flying laboratory on a 26-day journey from the North Pole down the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand and then across to the tip of South America and back north up the Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic.