Maria Navarro, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Miami, checked connections on the Advanced Whole Air Sampler instrument prior to its installation on a NASA Global Hawk aircraft.
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Mission: Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX)
Maria Navarro, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Miami, checked connections on the Advanced Whole Air Sampler instrument prior to its installation on a NASA Global Hawk aircraft. The device was one of 11 specialized atmospheric sampling instruments installed on the Global Hawk for the ATTREX mission, a multi-year airborne science campaign to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how changes in a warming climate are changing Earth.December 17, 2012
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