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What if you could measure a glacier in such detail that you could visualize its surface in 3D? And what if you could...
Dr. Eric Becklin spoke to educators about the airborne astronomy that was conducted using SOFIA’s scientific...
NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory seen at sunset after a flight supporting the AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica campaign. AirSAR...
NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory seen at sunset after a flight supporting the AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica campaign. AirSAR...
NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory takes off from Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, on...
Dense rain forest in the La Selva region of Costa Rica. AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica is a three-week expedition by an...
A spider photographed during NASA's AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica campaign in the La Selva region of the Costa Rican rain...
The Diode Laser Hygrometer, or DLH is an instrument uses a laser sensor to detect concentrations of water vapor in...
A group of university students and mentors flew aboard NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft to...
NASA researchers with the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling, or TC4 experiment discuss the airborne...
Pilot Stuart Broce flies up to 70,000 Feet in a NASA ER-2 aircraft. These flights are to collect atmospheric data...
After 37 years of serving the world’s scientific community, the DC-8 continues its educational legacy as it retires...
The Fast Cloud Droplet Probe, or FCDP is a laser-based, profiler instrument that performs particle-size detection of...
NASA DC-8 airborne laboratory flying over Mint Canyon near the snow-covered San Gabriel Mountains of California. The...
An airborne view of a T-38 taken from the Atlantis (STS-36) while landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California...
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoonal Processes-Philippines Experiment, or CAMP2Ex, involved collaborators from...
Air-LUSI takes off aboard an ER2 out of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, CA for an airborne...
The flight crew of NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory includes (from left), flight engineer Marty Trout and pilots...
Scientists carefully examine data being received during nighttime line operations testing of the SOFIA airborne...
NASA's new SOFIA observatory shared the ramp with its predecessor, the now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory,...
NASA's now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory shared the limelight with its successor, the SOFIA observatory,...
The 2.5-meter infrared telescope peers out from its cavity in the SOFIA airborne observatory during nighttime line...
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was airborne for almost two hours during its first...
The SOFIA airborne observatory's 2.5-meter infrared telescope peers out from its cavity in the SOFIA rear fuselage...