Inlet (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Inlet

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This is an inlet mounted on the bottom of an Airbus A340-600 that leads to a special airfreight container installed in the cargo bay on a monthly basis. The instrumentation in the container measures aerosol particles and greenhouse gases during long-range flights.

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Image courtesy of Torsten Gehrlein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany).

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