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NASA Air Pollution Study to Fly Over Houston

This two-engine B200 King Air aircraft, shown in this image on the tarmac at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., will
Two NASA aircraft equipped with scientific instruments will fly over the Houston area throughout September of 2013 as part of a multi-year airborne science mission to help scientists better understand how to measure and forecast air quality from space.

Two NASA aircraft equipped with scientific instruments will fly over the Houston area throughout September of 2013 as part of a multi-year airborne science mission to help scientists better understand how to measure and forecast air quality from space.

The aircraft are part of NASA’s five-year DISCOVER-AQ study, which stands for Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality.

This two-engine B200 King Air aircraft, shown on the tarmac at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., will collect data for the DISCOVER-AQ study looking downward from an altitude of 26,000 feet. The plane’s instruments will look down at the Earth’s surface, much like a satellite, and measure particulate and gaseous air pollution.

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Image Credit: NASA