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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe making a presentation to Fernando Gutierrez during the AirSAR 2004 hangar naming ceremony. |
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Photo Number: | ED04-0056-026 |
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Formats: | 578x480 JPEG Image (151 KBytes) 1233x1024 JPEG Image (538 KBytes) 2889x2400 JPEG Image (2457 KBytes) |
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Photo Description: |
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe making a presentation to Fernando Gutierrez, Costa Rican Minister of Science and Technology(MICIT), during the AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica hangar naming ceremony.
AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica is a three-week expedition by an international team of scientists that will use an all-weather imaging tool, called the Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR), in a mission ranging from the tropical rain forests of Central America to frigid Antarctica. |
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Project Description: |
NASA used a DC-8 aircraft as a flying science laboratory. The platform aircraft, was based at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., collected data for many experiments in support of scientific projects serving the world scientific community. Included in this community were NASA, federal, state, academic and foreign investigators. Data gathered by the DC-8 at flight altitude and by remote sensing has been used for scientific studies in archeology, ecology, geography, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, volcanology, atmospheric chemistry, soil science and biology. |
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NASA Photo by: | Jim Ross |
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Keywords: | DC-8, Airborne Science, AirSAR, Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, Central America, Costa Rica, Sean O'Keefe, Fernando Gutierrez, Costa Rican Minister of Science and Technology(MICIT) |
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