Global Hawk Autonomous AircraftScaled Composites' Proteus aircraft trailed one of NASA's Global Hawks during a test mission to prepare for a demonstration of...Scaled Composites' Proteus aircraft trailed one of NASA's Global Hawks during a test mission to prepare for a demonstration of...The three probes of UCLA's Miniature Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer, or mini-DOAS, protruded through an aerodynamic fairing on the fuselage...UCLA's Miniature Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer, or mini-DOAS, was mounted in the payload area of a NASA Global Hawk to...The Diode Laser Hygrometer developed by NASA's Langley Research Center was mounted in the Global Hawk's payload bay to prepare...NASA Goddard's Cloud Physics Lidar electronics were installed in the upper area of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft just in...A full house of flight crew and scientists occupied the Global Hawk Operations Center at NASA Dryden during the GRIP...The High Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrating Circuit Sounding Radiometer, or HAMSR, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was a remote-sensing...This image from NASA's Real Time Mission Monitor showed the flight track of NASA's Global Hawk over the Pacific Ocean...An automated dropsonde deployment system, developed for NOAA by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, was installed on NASA's Global...Northrop Grumman technician Rich Gilman (left) and JPL instrument systems engineer Jordan Tanabe poured liquid nitrogen into a reservoir to...JPL instrument systems engineer Jordan Tanabe (left) and NASA Dryden sheet metal technician Bill Stanfield installed the HAMSR sensor fairing...A NASA King Air studied wake turbulence from a NASA Global Hawk prior to an upcoming Northrop Grumman aerial refueling...A NASA King Air studied wake turbulence while flying behind and below a NASA Global Hawk.NASA Goddard's Lihau Li, left, and Gerry Heymsfield adjusted the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler prior to its installation...Technicians at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA, installed a camera in the nose of one of NASA's...A NASA Global Hawk undergoes systems testing while parked on the ramp at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on the...The large gray fairing on the belly of a NASA Global Hawk covered the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler,...Technicians prepared to install the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler, or HIWRAP, on the underside of a NASA Global...NASA's Global Hawk soared aloft from Edwards Air Force Base, CA, on a functional check flight of the aircraft payload...NOAA's Laurel Watts and NASA Dryden's Dennis Pitts installed NOAA's Ozone instrument on NASA's Global Hawk.Global Hawk co-mission scientist David Fahey, NOAA, oversaw work by Jim Elkins on NOAA's UAS Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species...M.J. Mahoney, JPL, and Robert Rivera, NASA Dryden, measured mounts to install scientific equipment on NASA Global Hawk.The Lightning Instrument Package, or LIP, developed by Earth scientists and engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, was designed...The logos of several partnering agencies and institutions graced the side of NASA's Global Hawk aircraft during the Global Hawk...Atmospheric scientists checked out their instruments in a hangar at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center prior to installation aboard one...As NASA Dryden's Global Hawk project manager Chris Naftel observed from the rear, scientists checked out data coming from their...Science team members gathered in the Global Hawk Operations Center at NASA Dryden closely monitored data coming from their instruments...In stark contrast to the blue sky above, NASA's Global Hawk # 871 cruises over the high desert of Southern...NASA's Global Hawk # 871 climbed out after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base, CA, on its first checkout flight...While Air Force F-22 and F-16 aircraft awaited their turn to take the runway, NASA's Global Hawk # 871 lifted...NASA's Global Hawk # 871 soared aloft from Edwards Air Force Base, CA, on its first checkout flight since being...NASA's Global Hawk # 871 cruised over low cloud layers during its first checkout flight since being transferred to NASA...NASA's Global Hawk # 871 cruises over low cloud layers during its first checkout flight since being transferred to NASA...Atmospheric physicist Paul Newman, co-mission scientist for the Global Hawk Pacific (GloPac) environmental science mission, was interviewed by the BBC's...Time Warner Cable SoCal News' Cody Urban and Keli Moore interview NASA atmospheric physicist Paul Newman, co-mission scientist for the...Videographers Alan Devall from Reuters and Cody Urban from Time Warner Cable recorded comments from research physicist David Fahey, NOAA's...With one of NASA's Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft in the background, news media personnel focused on NASA Dryden's Global...The initial flight path of NASA's Global Hawk on its first data-collection flight in the Global Hawk Pacific (GloPac) environmental...The outbound flight path of NASA's Global Hawk was marked in red shortly after it turned around over the North...