Dryden mechanic Larry Phillips (right), assisted by crew chief Pat Lloyd (left) and mechanic Donny Bailes (rear), mounted the Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer, or CoSMIR, on a frame in the belly of NASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory.
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Mission: Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPex)
Dryden mechanic Larry Phillips (right), assisted by DC-8 crew chief Pat Lloyd (left) and mechanic Donny Bailes (rear), mounted the Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer, or CoSMIR, on a frame in the belly of NASA’s DC-8 airborne science laboratory. CoSMIR simulated measurements taken from space by the Global Precipitation Measurement satellite after it launched in 2014.January 9, 2012
NASA / Tom Tschida