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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A NASA-led ngo with spiraling planes and low-altitude flybys is coming to the Central Valley this summertime to cod aerial samples.
Between June 29 and July 2, NASA’s P-3 Orion craft and a King Air B200 craft volition marque a bid of atmospheric probe flights implicit the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and the Central Valley.
The flights volition execute specialized maneuvers specified arsenic vertical spirals betwixt 1,000 and 10,000 feet, circling supra powerfulness plants, landfills, and municipality areas. The planes volition besides behaviour missed approaches astatine section airports and low-altitude flybys on runways to cod aerial samples adjacent the surface.
The flights are portion of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), an eight-week summertime internship that provides undergraduates with hands-on experience. For this mission, students volition assistance run the subject instruments connected the craft to cod atmospheric data.
