NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world’s biggest flying laboratory, in an ambitious mission to improve the models that help to forecast and fight air pollution.
- NASA operates a highly modified Douglas DC-8 jetliner as a flying science laboratory.
- The aircraft is based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California and is used to collect data for experiments in support of projects serving the world’s scientific community.
- Data gathered with the aircraft at flight altitude, and by remote sensing, have been used for studies in archaeology, ecology, geography, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, volcanology, atmospheric chemistry, cryospheric science, soil science, and biology.
