Airborne Science

ER-2

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

High-Altitude ER-2 Flights Get Down-to-Earth Data

Operating at altitudes above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s ER-2 aircraft is the agency’s highest-flying airborne science platform.

Posted October 25, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

NASA Earth Scientists Take Flight, Set Sail to Verify PACE Satellite Data

From sea to sky to orbit, a range of vantage points allow NASA Earth scientists to collect different types of data to better understand our changing planet. Collecting them together, at the same place and the same time, is an important step used to verify the accuracy of satellite data. NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean […]

Posted September 4, 2024

Airborne Science

Climate Change

Earth

NASA Invites Media to Event with Scientists, Research Plane in Alaska

NASA invites media to view a research aircraft and interview scientists in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thursday, Aug. 22, prior to flights of the agency’s Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), which seeks a better understanding of the sensitivity of northern ecosystems and communities to climate change.

Posted August 14, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Ice & Glaciers

Langley Research Center

Sea Ice

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Returns to Arctic Studying Summer Sea Ice Melt

What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth’s rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions in the northernmost part of Earth have a large impact on the entire planet. That’s because the Arctic region acts […]

Posted July 26, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA-Led Mission to Map Air Pollution Over Both U.S. Coasts

This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. The campaign supports the NASA Student Airborne Research Program for undergraduate interns. The East Coast flights will take place from June 17-26.

Posted June 14, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Ice & Glaciers

Langley Research Center

Sea Ice

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Mission Flies Over Arctic to Study Sea Ice Melt Causes

It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean […]

Posted May 31, 2024

Aeronautics

Airborne Science

Armstrong Flight Research Center

DC-8

Earth Science

Langley Research Center

Science in the Air

NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire

After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1.

Posted April 10, 2024

Langley Research Center

Airborne Science

People of NASA

Women at NASA

Women's History Month

Langley Celebrates Women’s History Month: The Langley ASIA-AQ Team

In honor of Women’s History Month, we caught up with the ASIA-AQ team on the other side of the Earth and asked the women from Langley about their inspirations and challenges as scientists. The ASIA-AQ (Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality) mission is an international cooperative field study designed to address local air […]

Posted March 29, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Airborne Science

DC-8

Earth Science

General

Langley Research Center

Science in the Air

NASA Collaborates in an International Air Quality Study

NASA and international researchers are studying the air quality in Asia as part of a global effort to better understand the air we breathe.

Posted February 12, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Airborne Science

DC-8

Science Mission Directorate

NASA’s DC-8 to Fly Low-Altitude Over Central Valley, CA

What: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft will fly over Central Valley and surroundings areas as part of an air quality field study.

Posted January 23, 2024