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Pilot Bill Brockett (left) and Chilean Air Force Captain Saez with school children in the cockpit of NASA Dryden's DC-8 flying laboratory.
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Pilot Bill Brockett (left) and Chilean Air Force Captain Saez with school children in the cockpit of NASA Dryden’s DC-8 flying laboratory. Brockett explained NASA’s Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR) 2004 mission in Chile. The 2004 mission studied the extent and distribution of archeological Mayan civilization (using foliage-penetrating radar); studied the glaciers of Patagonia and the Antarctic peninsula; investigated new techniques for the measurement of the forest structure of dense tropical forests; filled in the largest “void” in the SRTM-derived map of South American topography; and collected additional data for various research initiatives.
March 10, 2004
NASA Photo / Jim Ross