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Cloud Particle Probes Installed on DC-8 Wingtips

Cloud Particle Probes Installed on DC-8 Wingtips
NASA's James C. Smith III (left) and SPEC Inc. engineer Nick Krausse installed cloud particle probes on the wingtip pylons of NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory.

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Mission: Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds, and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS)

NASA’s James C. Smith III (left) and SPEC Inc. engineer Nick Krausse installed cloud particle probes on the wingtip pylons of NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory. Researchers used four probes to study precipitation and cloud particles during the SEAC4RS mission.

Summer 2013
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