FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A NASA-led mission with spiraling planes and low-altitude flybys is coming to the Central Valley this summer to collect air samples.
Between June 29 and July 2, NASA’s P-3 Orion aircraft and a King Air B200 aircraft will make a series of atmospheric research flights over the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and the Central Valley.
The flights will execute specialized maneuvers such as vertical spirals between 1,000 and 10,000 feet, circling above power plants, landfills, and urban areas. The planes will also conduct missed approaches at local airports and low-altitude flybys along runways to collect air samples near the surface.
The flights are part of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), an eight-week summer internship that provides undergraduates with hands-on experience. For this mission, students will help operate the science instruments on the aircraft to collect atmospheric data.
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