Air-LUSI takes off aboard an ER-2 from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California for an airborne campaign to measure the Moon from Nov. 13–17, 2019.
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Air-LUSI takes off aboard an ER-2 from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California for an airborne campaign to measure the Moon from Nov. 13–17, 2019. The NASA-funded instrument is “measuring how much sunlight is reflected by the Moon at various phases in order to accurately characterize it and expand how the Moon is used to calibrate Earth observing sensors.
For more information: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/new-moon-seeking-sensor-aims-to-improve-earth-observations
November 12, 2019
NASA Photo / Ken Ulbrich