NASA, NOAA Deploy 5 Aircraft Near Houston for SARP Mission, Including 1,000-Foot Flights
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Updated · NASA · Jun 2
NASA, NOAA Deploy 5 Aircraft Near Houston for SARP Mission, Including 1,000-Foot Flights
3 articles · Updated · NASA · Jun 2
Five research aircraft will fly out of Ellington Field from June 3 to June 13, with some low-altitude passes over Houston and nearby coastal areas.
A NOAA WP-3D Orion will descend to as low as 1,000 feet while aircraft fly raster patterns carrying remote-sensing payloads to map gases, particles and lower-atmosphere changes.
The mission also includes three NASA jets and a contracted King Air B200, equipped with lidars, a synthetic-aperture radar, an imaging spectrometer and two spectrometers.
Flights will focus mainly on the Houston region, with some extending over the Gulf of America, and can be tracked in real time through NASA's Airborne Science Program tracker.
SARP is an eight-week summer internship that gives undergraduates hands-on field research and data-analysis experience using NASA airborne science laboratories.