NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Research Flights Over Colorado
Agricultural emissions represent an important and understudied part of Earth’s land and atmosphere systems. The FarmFlux mission will deploy more than a dozen sensors to measure ozone, methane, ammonia, particulates, and other pollutants rising from agricultural lands and animal farms and the interaction with the Earth’s atmosphere. The mission is jointly led by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center…
NASA has announced plans for a series of low-altitude research flights over agricultural lands in Colorado to study emissions. The flights, conducted by Dynamic Aviation's A200 aircraft, aim to measure various pollutants such as ozone, methane, ammonia, and particulates. This mission, called FarmFlux, is a collaborative effort between NASA, Colorado State University, and Boston University.
The Colorado deployment marks the initial series of flights for the mission, with similar flights planned for Amarillo, Texas, later in October. In the following growing season, from March to July 2027, research flights will be carried out using a NASA P-3 Orion aircraft in the Midwest and California's Central Valley, with a focus on croplands. For more information about the FarmFlux mission, interested parties can visit the NASA website.
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