NASA Airborne Mission Returns to Africa to Study Smoke, Clouds (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Airborne Mission Returns to Africa to Study Smoke, Clouds

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NASA's P-3 aircraft is prepared for departure from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia early in the morning Aug. 1 to support the agency's Observations of Aerosols above Clouds and their interactions or ORACLES mission. A five-year investigation, ORACLES is examining the impact aerosols from biomass burning in southern Africa has on climate as it mixes with clouds over the southeast Atlantic Ocean. The 2017 flight campaign, which runs through August, will base from São Tomé, Africa.

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Credits: NASA/Patrick Black

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