Dr. Tom Mace, NASA DFRC Director of Airborne Sciences, talks with a student from Punta Arenas, Chile, during a tour of the DC-8 aircraft while it was in the country supporting the AirSAR 2004 campaign.
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Dr. Tom Mace, NASA DFRC Director of Airborne Sciences, talked with a student from Punta Arenas, Chile, during a tour of the DC-8 aircraft while it was in the country supporting the AirSAR 2004 campaign. The 2004 campaign 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