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  • NASA’s Global Hawk aircraft takes off from its base operations in Edwards, California to fly near the equator over the Pacific Ocean in the tropical tropopause layer.

    NASA and Partners begin 2015 CAST ATTREX Mission

    NASA scientists will study the movement of water vapor and greenhouse gases in the tropical tropopause region during this year's CAST ATTREX Mission

  • A sixth grade class at Central Elementary School in Tioga, North Dakota participated in NASA's 2014 Operation Ice Bridge Mission using the Mission Tool Suite for Education (MTSE) website.

    NASA Brings the Spirit of Adventure into the Classroom

    Across the United States and around the world, students now can participate in deployed NASA Airborne Science Missions.

  • Students and teachers from Guam High School learn about how ATTREX scientists control their instruments on Global Hawk from the Payload Mobile Operations Facility.

    NASA Brings Science to Life in Guam Classrooms

    In addition to doing cutting-edge atmospheric science, ATTREX team shared the excitement of their scientific mission with students, teachers in Guam.

  • NASA Global Hawk at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam

    NASA Completes ATTREX Flights in Search of Climate Change Clues

    Science flights from Guam during the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment tracked upper atmosphere changes to help researchers understand how they affect Earth's climate.

  • NASA's unmanned Global Hawk is pushed out of a hangar on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in preparation for an ATTREX science flight over the Western Pacific.

    NASA Completes First ATTREX Science Flight from Guam

    A lengthy science flight over Western Pacific tracked changes in upper atmosphere to help researchers understand how the changes affect Earth's climate.

  • NASA Global Hawk

    NASA Global Hawk Ready for 2014 ATTREX Mission

    A NASA Global Hawk recently completed a checkout flight of science instruments to be used in the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment.

  • ER-2 pilot in cockpit at 70K ft

    Airborne Science Program Trailer

    The latest video on the ATTREX mission features footage taken at 70,000 ft from the ER-2 cockpit.  This and other videos on the mission can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/sciflychannel.

  • Screenshot from ATTREX video

    First in a series of videos on ATTREX released

    “What is ATTREX?” the first in a series of videos describing the ATTREX mission and its scientific results, has been released. The video includes interviews with the ATTREX PI and co-I  (Eric Jensen and Lenny Pfister, ARC/SGG) and the program managers at HQ supporting the project – Hal Maring and Ken Jucks. The video can be seen on Facebook and YouTube.

  • Students from the Palmdale Aerospace Academy in Palmdale, Calif., got a first-hand look at NASA's two autonomously operated Global Hawk science aircraft during their field trip to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center

    Aerospace Academy Students Explore ATTREX Mission

    Middle schoolers explore how NASA utilizes unmanned aircraft and 21st century technology to investigate the Earth’s atmosphere and climate.

  • Media interview a member of the flight crew of NASA's P-3B environmental science aircraft about the DISCOVER-AQ air quality survey mission

    NASA Airborne Science: Studying our Environment

    News media, social media followers and educators learn about NASA's airborne Earth and environmental science program, briefed on current and upcoming missions.

  • NASA Sends Global hawk Into Stratosphere