The bulging fairing atop the forward fuselage of NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft covers a variety of navigation, communications, and science instruments.
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The bulging fairing atop the forward fuselage of NASA’s Ikhana unmanned aircraft covers a variety of navigation, communications, and science instruments. A variety of Earth science in situ and remote sensing instruments can be installed to collect data during flights lasting more than 20 hours. Data gathered by sensors on Ikhana within the Earth’s atmosphere complement measurements of the same phenomena taken from space and those taken on the Earth’s surface.March 5, 2007
NASA Photo / Tony Landis
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