A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor is helping to fight more than 300 California wildfires.
A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor is helping to fight more than 300 California wildfires.
View images of data collected by NASA's unmanned Ikhana aircraft, superimposed over Google Earth terrain data.
07.03.08 - An international team of fire trackers, weather forecasters and various atmospheric scientists puzzle over computer models, satellite tracks and flight charts to determine how fires age.
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In an effort to better understand the chemical nature of smog and greenhouse gases, scientists from the California Air Resources Board, CARB are collaborating with NASA scientists who are flying specially configured aircraft -- the DC-8 and the P-3 -- up and down the California coast this month and over the Central valley at varying altitudes.
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06.12.08 - NASA aircraft will follow the trails of smoke plumes from some of Earth's northernmost forest fires, examining their contribution to arctic pollution.
05.27.08 - Clouds serve a valuable role in Earth's climate, and thanks to A-Train, a closer look at them is possible.
03.17.08 - NASA satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another.
10.10.06 - NASA scientists have shown that pollutants from Central American biomass burning can influence air quality and climate in the United States.
09.21.06 - NASA satellites and other data have demonstrated the impact that pollutants traveling even thousands of miles can have on air quality.
09.07.06 - Dust in the --- rainfall?
07.13.06 - NASA studies pollution and its impacts on climate.
05.01.06 - Data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder is shedding new light on how natural and human-produced pollutants can have wide-reaching affects on the health of our global village.
03.09.06 - In Mexico City, a team of researchers from NASA and other institutions have kicked off the first phase of one of the most complex field campaigns ever undertaken in atmospheric chemistry.