Airborne Science Program

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NASA's Airborne Science Program is administered from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, in Edwards, California. The program supports the sub-orbital flight requirements of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. Dryden maintains and operates two ER-2 high-altitude satellite simulator aircraft and a DC-8 flying laboratory.

The scientific disciplines that employ these aircraft include earth resources, astronomy, atmospheric chemistry, climatology, oceanography, archeology, ecology, forestry, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, volcanology and biology. The DC-8 and ER-2 are also important tools to develop sensors that will fly aboard future Earth-observing satellites and validate and calibrate the satellite sensors that currently orbit the Earth.

Contents 1 Media 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

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Airborne Science Safari 2000 Mission

ER-2 in Sweden for the Sage III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment

[edit] See also

• Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science

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[edit] External links

• "NASA Airborne Science Program". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/research/AirSci/index.html. Retrieved on 18 October 2005. 

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