Monday, January 14, 2013

NASA Seeks Answers to Climate Change

NASA Chases Climate Change Clues Into The Stratosphere
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2013 /PR Newswire/ -- Starting this month, NASA will send a remotely piloted research aircraft as high as 65,000 feet over the tropical Pacific Ocean to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how a warming climate is changing Earth.

The first flights of the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX), a multi-year airborne science campaign with a heavily instrumented Global Hawk aircraft, will take off from and be operated by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The Global Hawk is able to make 30-hour flights. read more>>>


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