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Wildfire Smoke Darkens the Sky Before Global Hawk Flight

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Oct 22, 2009
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Wildfire Smoke Darkens the Sky Before Global Hawk Flight
One of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft prepared for a taxi test as the sun rose over California's Mojave Desert.

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One of NASA’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft prepared for a taxi test as the sun rose over California’s Mojave Desert. Smoke from a large Southern California wildfire darkened the sky. The Global Hawk aircraft are operated by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center located at Edwards, CA.September 1, 2009
NASA Photo / Tony Landis