NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory takes off from Carlos Ibanez International Airport in Punta Arenas, Chile, during NASA's AirSAR 2004 campaign.
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NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory took off from Carlos Ibanez International Airport in Punta Arenas, Chile, during NASA’s Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR) 2004 campaign. AirSAR 2004 was a three-week expedition in Central and South America by an international team of scientists that used an all-weather imaging tool, called the AirSAR, located onboard NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory.March 13, 2004
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