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1. NASA Aircraft Take to Skies over Houston for Air Pollution Study
2. NASA Invites Media to Preview Pollution-Climate Science Flights Aug 22

Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:54:32 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Aircraft Take to Skies over Houston for Air Pollution Study

August 15, 2013

William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918

Michael Finneran Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va 757-864-6110

Report #M13-133

NASA Aircraft Take to Skies over Houston for Air Pollution Study

A multi-year NASA science mission soon will be airborne over Houston to help scientists measure and forecast air quality from space

NASA is inviting media to see two NASA aircraft equipped with scientific instruments at Ellington Field in Houston on Tuesday, Sept 3 as the planes are being readied for a month-long series of flights over the metropolitan area beginning Wednesday, Sept 4 The date for this media opportunity is subject to change depending on the schedule of research flights

To arrange for credentials, contact William Jeffs at 281-483-5111 or william p jeffs@nasa gov Non-U S media planning to attend must respond by Tuesday, Aug 20 U S reporters must respond by Wednesday, Aug 28

The P-38 turboprop and two-engine B200 King Air plane are part of a five-year study NASA calls DISCOVER-AQ, which is short for Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality

Researchers are working to improve the ability of satellites to consistently observe air quality in the lowest part of the atmosphere If scientists can better observe pollution from space, they may be able to make better air quality forecasts and more accurately determine where pollution is coming from and why emissions vary

Flights will be at altitudes as low as 1,000 feet Sampling will focus on the Houston metropolitan area ranging from Conroe in the north to Galveston in the south

DISCOVER-AQ is an Earth Venture mission, part of the Earth System Science Pathfinder program managed at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va , for the Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington

For more information on DISCOVER-AQ, visit:

http://www nasa gov/mission_pages/discover-aq/

and

http://discover-aq larc nasa gov/

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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:56:30 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Invites Media to Preview Pollution-Climate Science Flights Aug 22

August 16, 2013

William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918

Report #M13-136

NASA Invites Media to Preview Pollution-Climate Science Flights Aug 22

NASA has changed the day for a behind-the-scenes look at the agency's airborne campaign to study how storm systems combine with air pollution from wildfires and other sources to affect our climate NASA now will host its pollution-climate science flights media day from 1-3 p m CDT on Thursday, Aug 22, in Houston

Events taking place at NASA Johnson Space Center's Ellington Field that day include a briefing with mission scientists and flight crews, followed by tours of the aircraft and interviews U S reporters must register by Monday, Aug 19 To arrange for credentials, contact William Jeffs at 281-483-5111 or william p jeffs@nasa gov

The campaign currently underway is NASA's most complex airborne science study of the year, drawing together coordinated observations from NASA satellites, aircraft and ground sites The mission's primary aircraft are the DC-8, carrying 31 scientific instruments, and the high-altitude single-pilot ER-2, with 15 instruments

More than 200 scientists and support personnel are involved in the mission that is flying across the southern United States into September Aircraft participating in the Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys mission -- also known as SEAC4RS -- will fly out of Ellington Field

The SEAC4RS media event follows another media opportunity at Ellington Field that day where plans to relocate the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Space Center Houston will be announced For more information about this separate event, contact Jack Moore with Space Center Houston at 281-244-2137 or jmoore@spacecenter org

For more information about the SEAC4RS mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/seac4rs

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