Earth  ID: 12540

ATom Postcard - Ascension Island to the Azores Islands

Released on March 16, 2017
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Atmospheric scientist Róisín Commane of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from Ascension Island and the Azores Islands, the seventh and eighth legs of the Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom mission. Flying over the Atlantic Ocean, the science team saw evidence of fires in Africa and dust from the Sahara.

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The ATom mission aboard NASA’s DC-8 aircraft and flying laboratory is sampling world-wide in one of the most extensive surveys of the atmosphere to date, measuring over 200 gases as well as airborne particles. The science team is particularly interested in methane, tropospheric ozone and black carbon particles, which have strong effects on climate and which all have both human and natural origins.
 

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Credits

Ellen T. Gray (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Lead Writer
Kathryn Mersmann (USRA): Lead Producer
Roisin Commane (Harvard University): Scientist
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Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
SVS >> DC-8
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere
SVS >> Atmospheric Science
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0