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Tagged: NASA

Air Quality
5:35 pm
Fri January 18, 2013

NASA Flights Over Fresno, Bakersfield Hope to Predict Air Quality From Space

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Credit Penn State / NASA
A NASA P3-B aircraft flys over Porterville on Wednesday as part of project to learn more about air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley
Credit Penn State / NASA
Instruments that monitor air quality sit inside a NASA P3-B aircraft that is part of an experiment to learn more about air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley
Credit NASA
A map shows the flight path for NASA's DISCOVER-AQ program as it monitors air quality in the San Joaquin Valley
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NASA scientists and aircraft took to the skies above Fresno and Bakersfield today. It's part of a project that one day hopes to predict and air quality from space.

Two aircraft, including a converted Navy P3-B flew repeated loops over various valley cities today, one of them as low as 1,000 feet, to gather air samples. It's part of a program NASA calls DISCOVER-AQ which aims to better understand pollution spikes and how pollutants react with sunlight throughout the day. 

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