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Ares I-X Coming Together
The Ares I-X launch abort sy …
01/30/09
Description The Ares I-X launch abort system (LAS) simulator joins rocket elements from NASA Glenn in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The 53-foot (16.15-meter) LAS, along with the crew module (CM) simulator will make up the nose of Ares I-X. The LAS and CM simulators were designed and built at NASA Langley Research Center. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 01/30/09
Ares I-X Coming Together
The Ares I-X launch abort sy …
01/30/09
Description The Ares I-X launch abort system (LAS) simulator joins rocket elements from NASA Glenn in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The 53-foot (16.15-meter) LAS, along with the crew module (CM) simulator will make up the nose of Ares I-X. The LAS and CM simulators were designed and built at NASA Langley Research Center. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 01/30/09
Ares I-X Coming Together
The Ares I-X launch abort sy …
01/30/09
Description The Ares I-X launch abort system (LAS) simulator joins rocket elements from NASA Glenn in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The 53-foot (16.15-meter) LAS, along with the crew module (CM) simulator will make up the nose of Ares I-X. The LAS and CM simulators were designed and built at NASA Langley Research Center. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 01/30/09
Ares I-X Coming Together
The Ares I-X launch abort sy …
01/30/09
Description The Ares I-X launch abort system (LAS) simulator joins rocket elements from NASA Glenn in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The 53-foot (16.15-meter) LAS, along with the crew module (CM) simulator will make up the nose of Ares I-X. The LAS and CM simulators were designed and built at NASA Langley Research Center. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 01/30/09
Ares I-X Coming Together
The Ares I-X launch abort sy …
01/30/09
Description The Ares I-X launch abort system (LAS) simulator joins rocket elements from NASA Glenn in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The 53-foot (16.15-meter) LAS, along with the crew module (CM) simulator will make up the nose of Ares I-X. The LAS and CM simulators were designed and built at NASA Langley Research Center. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 01/30/09
Ares I-X Coming Together
The Ares I-X launch abort sy …
01/30/09
Description The Ares I-X launch abort system (LAS) simulator joins rocket elements from NASA Glenn in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The 53-foot (16.15-meter) LAS, along with the crew module (CM) simulator will make up the nose of Ares I-X. The LAS and CM simulators were designed and built at NASA Langley Research Center. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 01/30/09
Ares I-X Coming Together
The Ares I-X launch abort sy …
01/30/09
Description The Ares I-X launch abort system (LAS) simulator joins rocket elements from NASA Glenn in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The 53-foot (16.15-meter) LAS, along with the crew module (CM) simulator will make up the nose of Ares I-X. The LAS and CM simulators were designed and built at NASA Langley Research Center. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 01/30/09
More Los Angeles Fire Images
Triple-digit temperatures, e …
9/1/09
Description Triple-digit temperatures, extremely low relative humidities, dense vegetation that has not burned in decades, and years of extended drought are all contributing to the explosive growth of wildfires throughout Southern California. The Station fire, which began Aug. 26, 2009, in La Canada/Flintridge, not far from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had reportedly burned 105,000 acres (164 square miles) of the Angeles National Forest by mid-day Aug. 31, destroying at least 21 homes and threatening more than 12,000 others. It is one of four major fires burning in Southern California at the present time. This image was acquired mid-morning on Aug. 30 by the backward (northward)-viewing camera of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. The image is shown in an approximate perspective view at an angle of 46 degrees off of vertical. The area covered by the image is 245 kilometers (152 miles) wide. Several pyrocumulus clouds, created by the Station Fire, are visible above the smoke plumes rising from the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles in the left-center of the image. Smoke from the Station fire is seen covering the interior valleys along the south side of the San Gabriel Mountains, along with parts of the City of Los Angeles and Orange County, and can be seen drifting for hundreds of kilometers to the east over the Mojave Desert. The accompanying plots are histograms that display the heights of the smoke plumes and wind speeds. In this data set, the plume is injecting smoke more than 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) above sea level. MISR observes the daylit Earth continuously and every 9 days views the entire globe between 82 degrees north and 82 degrees south latitude. This image was generated from a portion of the imagery acquired during Terra orbit 51601. MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The MISR data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Science Data Center. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team
Date 9/1/09
NASA TV's This Week @NASA, M …
** STS-131 UPDATE -- JSC/KSC …
03/05/2010
Description ** STS-131 UPDATE -- JSC/KSC The STS-131 Crew and space shuttle Discovery continues their progress toward an April 5 launch to the International Space Station. Discovery has been rolled out to Launch Pad 39A, while the seven STS-131 astronauts participated in launch countdown dress rehearsal activities and other prelaunch training. ** AMES CREATES A WINNER -- ARC The World Wind Java computer program developed at the Ames Research Center has earned NASA's 2009 Software of the Year Award. World-Wind is an open-source platform used to display NASA and U.S. Geological Survey data on virtual 3-D globes of Earth and other planets. ** DEEP SPACE DOWN UNDER - JPL NASA is replacing an aging fleet of 230-foot-wide antennas used in the Deep Space Network with new ''beam wave guide'' antennas that enable the network to operate on several different frequency bands within the same antenna. The replacement antennas are approximately half the size of the originals. The NASA Deep Space Network - or DSN - is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. The network also supports selected Earth-orbiting missions. ** 2009 QASAR AWARD -- GRC Christopher DellaCorte, of the Glenn Research Center's Tribology & Mechanical Components branch has received the 2009 Quality and Safety Achievement or Qasar Award for figuring out what caused severe degradation of a starboard solar array alpha rotary joint on the International Space Station. ** STEM EDUCATORS WORKSHOP -- LARC Teachers became students while participating in the second annual NASA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics -- STEM -- Educators, Workshops held this year in Charlotte, N.C. The 40-session workshop provided elementary, middle and high school teachers with creative hands-on ways to incorporate NASA content into their classrooms. The workshops are specifically designed to give teachers tangible resources for immediate use in classrooms. ** FIRST ROBOTICS KICKOFF -- HQ The NASA supported ''For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology'' Robotics program began its 19th year with regional competitions like this one held in Washington, D.C. FIRST is a nationwide competition that teams young people with professionals to solve engineering design problems in a competitive way.
Date 03/05/2010
Ask A Scientist
Scientists from the Science …
5/13/08
Description Scientists from the Science Directorate at NASA's Langley Research Center, including Marty Mlynczak, Bruce Doddridge and Lin Chambers, participated in a series of "Ask a Scientist" panels for the public at EarthFest. Colleagues from the Virginia Institute for Marine Science and from the College of William and Mary also participated as panelists. The space also served as a gallery for Earth art, photographs and data images of our home planet from space. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 5/13/08
Active Sensing of CO2 Emissi …
Researchers from the Science …
11/24/08
Description Researchers from the Science Directorate at NASA Langley are working to better understand Earth's atmosphere and our changing climate. One group within the SD has partnered with ITT in Fort Wayne, Ind., to build and test a laser instrument called ASCENDS -- short for Active Sensing of CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons -- to study atmospheric carbon dioxide, an important greenhouse gas that is know to influence climate change. This fall, the teams met at the LaRC hangar to test-fly the instrument's Engineering Development Unit on the LaRC UC-12, a new aircraft at NASA Langley. In this photo, Mike Dobbs, instrument Co-Principal Investigator from ITT, pours liquid nitrogen to be used to cool the laser detector while in flight. The UC-12 is directly behind Dobbs awaiting take-off. Ultimately, the ASCENDS team hopes to see their instrument concept flown in space as Advanced CO<sub>2</sub> and Climate Laser International Mission (ACCLAIM), one of the 15 missions of critical importance recommended by the 2007 decadal survey for Earth science. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 11/24/08
Working for Quieter Airplane …
Gold-colored foam wedges shi …
1/7/09
Description Gold-colored foam wedges shield test subjects from outside noises during an acoustics test at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. NASA researchers study people's perception of aircraft sounds, especially the role of rattle noises and vibration. They use this information to help design quieter aircraft. Credit: NASA Langley/Sean Smith
Date 1/7/09
Crew Module, Launch Abort Sy …
NASA is a step closer to the …
1/26/09
Description NASA is a step closer to the first flight test of its back-to-the-moon rocket design with the completion of key Ares I-X rocket hardware elements at NASA's Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Va. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 1/26/09
The Road to Apollo
Almost 40 years have passed …
2/13/09
Description Almost 40 years have passed since July 20, 1969, when the lunar module "Eagle" carrying Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gingerly made its way down to the Sea of Tranquility, landing humans on the moon for the first time. "From launch to splashdown, there was no aspect of the Apollo mission that scientists, engineers and technicians at NASA's Langley Research Center had not helped to develop in one way or another," said historian James R. Hansen, author of Spaceflight Revolution. This weekly series of photographs will highlight some of the Hampton center's contributions on "The road to Apollo." Credit: NASA
Date 2/13/09
The Road to Apollo
A full-scale model of the Me …
3/16/09
Description A full-scale model of the Mercury capsule was tested in the Langley 30- by 60-Foot Full-Scale Wind Tunnel. Managed at Langley Research Center, the objectives of the Mercury program were quite specific -- to orbit a crewed spacecraft around the Earth, to investigate the ability of humans to function in space and to recover both human and spacecraft safely. Project Mercury accomplished the first orbital flight made by an American, astronaut John Glenn. Credit: NASA
Date 3/16/09
Smile, It's A Beautiful Day!
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Dance Across
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Eschew Obfuscation
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Baby You Light My Fire
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Life is Good!
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Every Noble Work...
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Skip to the Office
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Smile!
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Teachers Rule!
Mysterious chalkings have be …
4/28/09
Description Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible." Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 4/28/09
Image of the Week -- IRVE
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- A suc …
8/18/09
Description WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- A successful NASA flight test has shown that a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. This was the first time anyone has successfully flown an inflatable reentry capsule, according to engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, or IRVE, was vacuum-packed into a 15-inch diameter payload "shroud" and launched on a small sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. Nitrogen inflated the 10-foot (3 m) diameter heat shield, made of several layers of silicone-coated industrial fabric, to a mushroom shape in space several minutes after liftoff. "This was a huge success," said Mary Beth Wusk, IRVE project manager, based at Langley. "IRVE was a small-scale demonstrator. Now that we've proven the concept, we'd like to build more advanced aeroshells capable of handling higher heat rates." The Black Brant 9 rocket took about four minutes to lift the experiment to an altitude of 131 miles (211 km). Less than a minute later it was released from its cover and started inflating on schedule at 124 miles (199.5 km) up. The inflation of the shield took less than 90 seconds. "Everything performed well even into the subsonic range where we weren't sure what to expect," said Neil Cheatwood, IRVE principal investigator and chief scientist for the Hypersonics Project of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's Fundamental Aeronautics Program. "The telemetry looks good. The inflatable bladder held up well." Inflatable heat shields hold promise for future planetary missions, according to researchers. To land more mass on Mars at higher surface elevations, for instance, mission planners need to maximize the drag area of the entry system. The larger the diameter of the aeroshell, the bigger the payload can be. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 8/18/09
X-48C in Langley Full-Scale …
An historic wind tunnel at N …
9/4/09
Description An historic wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., is helping test the prototype of a new, more fuel-efficient, quieter aircraft design. Boeing Research & Technology, Huntington Beach, Calif., has partnered with NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to explore and validate the structural, aerodynamic and operational advantages of an advanced hybrid wing body concept called the blended wing body or BWB. NASA is flight testing one version of a 21-foot (6.4 m) wingspan BWB prototype, called the X-48B, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards AFB, Calif. The other one being tested in the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel is the X-48C. It has been modified to make it quieter. Those modifications include reducing the number of engines from three to two and the installation of noise-shielding vertical fins. The wind tunnel tests are assessing the aerodynamic effects of those modifications. NASA Langley owns the tunnel, but leased it to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., for more than 10 years for research and student engineering training. Cranfield Aerospace Ltd., Cranfield, England, built the ground-breaking prototypes to Boeing Research & Technology's specifications. Made primarily of advanced lightweight composite materials, the prototypes weigh about 400 pounds (181 kg) each. The Air Force is interested in a full-scale version's potential as a multi-role, long-range, high-capacity military aircraft. This is the second time this aircraft has been put through its paces at the historic tunnel that was built in 1930 and has been used to test everything from World War II fighters, to the Mercury capsule, to concepts for a supersonic transport. In 2006, preliminary tests helped engineers determine how it would fly during remotely piloted flights. Blended wing body designs are different than traditional tube and wing aircraft. One is that they rely primarily on multiple control surfaces on the wing for stability and control. Another is that they blend tube and wings for lower drag and better lift. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 9/4/09
Orion Crew Module Model
A half-scale model of the Or …
9/4/09
Description A half-scale model of the Orion Crew Module is lifted at the Landing and Impact Research (LandIR) Facility Tuesday, Sept. 22, at NASA Langley Research Center in preparation for a pendulum swing test where it will land on Kennedy Space Center simulated sand. The test helps engineers understand how a contingency land landing on sand would impact the crew module after a launch pad abort scenario. Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 9/4/09
NASA and NASCAR
This NASA video segment expl …
2008
Description This NASA video segment explores how NASCAR uses NASA technologies to provide safer stock cars for drivers. One example is the problem NASCAR drivers were experiencing with increased levels of carbon monoxide in their cars due to combustion. The NASCAR race team PENSKE designed a catalytic air filter to remove airborne particles supplying fresher air for drivers. Another borrowed technology is the thermal protection system NASA uses for the space shuttle's re-entry to Earth's atmosphere. Thermal protection is also used inside race cars to reduce the amount of heat caused by the stock car's roof and confined space. Full-scale wind tunnel tests are run on stock cars at NASA Langley Research Center. This video is a NASA eClips (TM) program.
Date 2008
Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) …
This NASA video segment expl …
2008
Description This NASA video segment explores the world of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV). Designed to provide a cost-efficient and safer way to explore, UAV can go places manned air vehicles cannot. UAV travel lower, longer, and venture into more hazardous spaces than manned air vehicles. Michael Logan, head of the Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Lab (SUAVE) at NASA Langley Research Center, explains a variety of UAV. This video is a NASA eClips (TM) program.
Date 2008
Pathfinder Starts Its Journe …
If you're heading through Am …
3/4/09
Description If you're heading through America's Sunbelt this week, you might look out your car window to see driving alongside you a nearly 45-foot-long (13.7 m) rocket assembly. In the background are large, white vacuum spheres in support of the hypersonic wind tunnel complex. The launch abort system pathfinder hit the road on Tuesday, March 3, 2009, from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and is on its way to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The pathfinder will support the first flight test of the abort system, called Pad Abort 1. A full-scale mock-up of the launch abort system (LAS) for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle began a week-long journey today across the country to be delivered to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, where it will help NASA prepare for the first abort system test, known as Pad Abort 1. The mock-up, also known as the LAS pathfinder, left NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., today and hit the road on a large flatbed trailer. Engineers and technicians at Langley designed and fabricated the hardware, which represents the size, outer shape and specific mass characteristics of Orion's abort system. Image Credit: NASA/Sean Smith
Date 3/4/09
Free Flight Captured
A blended wing body aircraft …
3/19/09
Description A blended wing body aircraft model used for testing in a wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center now flies high at the Smithsonian National Air...
Date 3/19/09
Free Flight Captured
A blended wing body aircraft …
3/19/09
Description A blended wing body aircraft model used for testing in a wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center now flies high at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's popular 'How Things Fly' gallery, which reopened March 18, 2009. Jon Montgomery (right) of NASA's Aeronautics Mission Support Office and his son Jack were among the visitors on opening day. Image Credit: NASA/Maria Werries
Date 3/19/09
DC-8
Alternative Jet Fuels Put to …
1/29/09
Description Alternative Jet Fuels Put to the Test at NASA Dryden &#8250, Read Feature Bruce Anderson of NASA Langley Research Center and David Liscinsky of United Technologies Research Center tie down sampling lines between the exhaust inlet probe and instrument trailers during synthetic fuel performance and emissions testing at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. January 22, 2009 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida ED09-0015-01
Date 1/29/09
DC-8
Alternative Jet Fuels Put to …
1/29/09
Description Alternative Jet Fuels Put to the Test at NASA Dryden &#8250, Read Feature Bruce Anderson of NASA Langley Research Center and David Liscinsky of United Technologies Research Center tie down sampling lines between the exhaust inlet probe and instrument trailers during synthetic fuel performance and emissions testing at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. January 22, 2009 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida ED09-0015-02
Date 1/29/09
ER-2
News Release 06-25P ER-2 Alo …
7/1/08
Description News Release 06-25P ER-2 Aloft Again After a lengthy downtime for a major overhaul, NASA 806, one of NASA's two high-flying ER-2 Earth resources aircraft, took to the skies recently from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on its first science mission in over two years. The flight checked out the functionality of sensitive instruments that will calibrate and validate data from sensors installed on the recently launched CALIPSO and CloudSat weather, climate and air quality monitoring satellites during a series of missions led by NASA's Langley Research Center with support from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in late July and August. CALIPSO, an acronym for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations, combines an active lidar instrument with passive infrared and visible-light imagers to probe the vertical structure and properties of thin clouds and aerosols (airborne particles). The complimentary CloudSat satellite carries a cloud profiling radar system that uses microwave energy to observe cloud particles and determine the mass of water and ice within clouds. The mission will provide the first global survey of cloud properties that are critical for understanding their effects on both weather and climate. Flying in formation with three other satellites, CALIPSO and CloudSat are expected to provide scientists and meteorologists with a greater understanding of our climate system. Photo Description NASA Dryden life support technician Jim Sokolik assists pressure-suited pilot Dee Porter into the cockpit of NASA's ER-2 Earth resources aircraft. July 13, 2006 NASA Photo / Jim Ross ED06-0117-13
Date 7/1/08
DC-8
Alternative Jet Fuels Put to …
1/29/09
Description Alternative Jet Fuels Put to the Test at NASA Dryden &#8250, Read Feature Brad Besheres of the U.S. Army's Arnold Engineering Development Center explains probe arrangement on an engine exhaust sampling rake to project scientist Bruce Anderson of NASA's Langley Research Center during alternative aviation fuels performance and emissions testing at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. January 22, 2009 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida ED09-0015-07
Date 1/29/09
DC-8
Alternative Jet Fuels Put to …
1/30/09
Description Alternative Jet Fuels Put to the Test at NASA Dryden &#8250, Read Feature Alternatives Aviation Fuels Experiment project scientist Bruce Anderson of NASA's Langley Research Center repairs a malfunctioning instrument shortly before an emissions test during synthetic fuels engine testing at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. January 27, 2009 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida ED09-0015-75
Date 1/30/09
Dryden's T-38 Talon Trainer …
NASA Dryden's T-38 Talon tra …
10/2/08
Description NASA Dryden's T-38 Talon trainer jet in flight over the main base complex at Edwards Air Force Base. Formerly at NASA's Langley Research Center, this Northrop T-38 Talon is now used for mission support and pilot proficiency at the Dryden Flight Research Center. May 5, 2006 NASA / photo Jim Ross ED06-0072-2
Date 10/2/08
NASA Dryden's T-38 Talon Tra …
NASA Dryden's T-38 Talon tra …
10/2/08
Description NASA Dryden's T-38 Talon trainer aircraft in flight near Edwards Air Force Base. Formerly at NASA's Langley Research Center, this Northrop T-38 Talon is now used for mission support and pilot proficiency at the Dryden Flight Research Center. May 5, 2006 NASA / Photo Jim Ross ED06-0072-4
Date 10/2/08
Northrop T-38 Talon During M …
NASA Dryden's T-38 trainer a …
10/2/08
Description NASA Dryden's T-38 trainer aircraft in flight over Cuddeback Dry Lake in Southern California. Formerly at NASA's Langley Research Center, this Northrop T-38 Talon is now used for mission support and pilot proficiency at the Dryden Flight Research Center. May 5, 2006 NASA / Photo Jim Ross ED06-0072-8
Date 10/2/08
Supercritical Wing - Winglet …
In the late 1970s Richard Wh …
1/5/09
Description In the late 1970s Richard Whitcomb of Langley Research Center, Hampton Va., developed winglets, which reduced drag on aircraft wings. They were the third of his major aeronautical discoveries. In the 1960s, he had originated the supercritical wing, an airfoil shape that reduced drag at speeds just below Mach 1. In the 1950s, Whitcomb developed the area rule concept, discovering that a narrowing in the fuselage over the wing reduced high-speed drag at transonic speeds. Winglets typically have supercritical airfoils and serve as end plates on the wing that stop the spanwise airflow down the wing while diminishing wingtip vortices. They also "fool" the wing into behaving as if it had a longer span, making the wing more efficient without the performance penalties of a longer wing. Whitcomb selected the best winglet shape for flight tests on a KC-135 tanker. These were large vertical fins installed on the tanker's wing tips. The modified KC-135 was flight-tested at Dryden during 1979 and 1980 and the data showed that the winglets provided a 7 percent improvement in range over that of the standard KC-135. The economic advantage eventually led to adoption of winglets on light aircraft, business jets, airliners and heavy military transports. Winglets were also retrofitted on older aircraft. While the KC-135 winglets were large, subsequent designs were smaller and lighter. Whitcomb led a team of researchers to develop and test a series of unique geometric airfoil shapes, or wing designs, that could be applied to subsonic transport to reduce drag at high speeds. The result was the supercritical airfoil. Compared with a conventional wing, the supercritical wing is flatter on the top and rounder on the bottom with a downward curve at the trailing edge. Dryden research flights validated that aircraft using the supercritical wing see increased cruising speed, improved fuel efficiency (about 15 percent), and better flight range than those using conventional wings. As a result, supercritical wings are now common on most modern subsonic military and commercial transports. Photo Description F-8 Supercritical Wing aircraft flights demonstrated increased cruising speed, improved fuel efficiency of about 7 percent, and better flight range than those made with conventional wings. As a result, supercritical wings are now common on most modern subsonic commercial transports. NASA Photo
Date 1/5/09
Operation Ice Bridge 2009
ED09-0284-2 Operation Ice Br …
10/9/09
Description ED09-0284-2 Operation Ice Bridge 2009 Glen Sachse of NASA's Langley Research Center adjusts the Differential Absorption CO Measurement, or DACOM, instrument developed at Langley after its installation on NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory. DACOM measures carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and methane during the Operation Ice Bridge mission to the Antarctic. September 29, 2009 NASA photo / Tom Tschida
Date 10/9/09
Operation Ice Bridge 2009
ED09-0284-3 Glen Sachse of N …
10/8/09
Description ED09-0284-3 Glen Sachse of NASA's Langley Research Center adjusts the Differential Absorption CO Measurement, or DACOM, instrument mounted in NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory in preparation for the Operation Ice Bridge deployment to the Antarctic. DACOM measures carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and methane during the Operation Ice Bridge mission to the Antarctic. September 29, 2009 NASA photo / Tom Tschida
Date 10/8/09
DC-8
ED09-0284-8 The Differential …
10/8/09
Description ED09-0284-8 The Differential Absorption CO Measurement, or DACOM, instrument developed at NASA's Langley Research Center is mounted in NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory in preparation for the Operation Ice Bridge deployment to the Antarctic. Glen Sachse of NASA Langley prepares the DACOM for its air-sampling mission to South America and the Antarctic. September 29, 2009 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida
Date 10/8/09
Operation Ice Bridge 2009
ED09-0284-23 NASA Langley Re …
10/9/09
Description ED09-0284-23 NASA Langley Research Center researcher Glen Sachse pours liquid nitrogen in a dewar used to keep the infrared detectors of the Differential Absorption CO Measurement instrument cold. Developed at NASA Langley, the instrument is installed on NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory and will be used to measure carbon monoxide, methane, and nitrous oxide concentrations during the Operation Ice Bridge mission to Antarctica. September 29, 2009 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida
Date 10/9/09
HURRICANE CARLOTTA SPINS IN …
With winds reaching 250 kilo …
7/7/00
Date 7/7/00
Description With winds reaching 250 kilometers per hour (155 mph), this year's Hurricane Carlotta became the second strongest eastern Pacific June hurricane on record. New images from NASA's Multi- angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) show the hurricane on June 21, the day of its peak intensity. MISR, built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is one of several Earth-observing instruments aboard NASA's Terra satellite, which was launched in December 1999. This set of images has been oriented so that the spacecraft's flight path is from left to right, north is at the left. The top image is a color view from MISR's vertical (nadir) camera, showing Carlotta's location in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The middle image is a stereoscopic anaglyph created using MISR's nadir camera plus one of its aftward-viewing cameras, and shows a closer view of the area around the hurricane. Viewing with red/blue glasses (red filter over the left eye) is required to obtain a 3-D stereo effect. Near the center of the storm, the eye is about 25 kilometers (16 miles) in diameter and partially obscured by a thin cloud. About 50 kilometers (31 miles) to the left of the eye, the sharp drop- off from high-level to low-level cloud gives a sense of the vertical extent of the hidden eye wall. The low-level cloud is spiraling counterclockwise into the center of the cyclone. It then rises in the vicinity of the eye wall and emerges with a clockwise rotation at high altitude. Maximum surface winds are found near the eye wall. The bottom stereo image is a zoomed-in view of convective clouds in the hurricane's spiral arms. The arms are breeding grounds for severe thunderstorms, with associated heavy rain and flooding, frequent lightning, and tornadoes. Thunderstorms rise in dramatic fashion to about the same altitude as the high cloud near the hurricane's center, and are made up of individual cells that are typically less than 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter. This image shows a number of these cells, some fairly isolated, and others connected together. Their three-dimensional structure is clearly apparent in this stereo view. More information about MISR is available at: http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov MISR scientific data products are available through the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center at NASA Langley Research Center: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov The Terra mission is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. #####
Hampton Roads, Virginia
This radar image shows the H …
5/8/97
Date 5/8/97
Description This radar image shows the Hampton Roads, Virginia region, where the James River (upper left center) flows into the Chesapeake Bay. The city of Norfolk is the bright area on the peninsula in the lower center. Norfolk is home to a large naval base, part of which can be seen as the bright white port facilities near the center of the image. The cities of Hampton and Newport News occupy the peninsula in the upper right of the image. The dark blue areas on this peninsula are the runways of Langley Air Force Base, which also houses NASA's Langley Research Center. Forested areas, including suburbs, appear as green on the image. Cities appear as green, white and orange. The purple areas along the shorelines are wetlands, blue areas are cleared for agricultural use. Faint ship wakes can be seen in the water behind ships entering and leaving Hampton Roads. Scientists are using radar images like this one to study delicate coastal environments and the effects of urbanization and other human activities on the ecosystem and landscape. The image was acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture (SIR-C/X-SAR) imaging radar when it flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on October 5, 1994.The image is centered at 36.9 degrees north latitude, 76.4 degrees west longitude. North is towards the upper right. The area shown is 37 kilometers by 29 kilometers (23 miles by 18 miles). Colors are assigned to different frequencies and polarizations of the radar as follows: red is L-band horizontally transmitted, horizontally received, green is L-band horizontally transmitted, vertically received, blue is C-band horizontally transmitted, vertically received. SIR-C/X-SAR, a joint mission of the German, Italian and United States space agencies, is part of NASA's ongoing Mission to Planet Earth program. #####
POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS
Polar stratospheric clouds o …
4/5/00
Date 4/5/00
Description Polar stratospheric clouds over Kiruna, Sweden, on Jan. 27, 2000. The colorful appearance of these clouds is due to the small size of their droplets and their high altitude, approximately 21,300 meters (70,000 ft). The small droplets in the clouds result in separation of light of different colors due to refraction of sunlight. Their high altitude allows for full solar illumination for up to 20 minutes following sunset at the ground. These clouds, which have long been called "Mother of Pearl" by Scandinavians, participate in a chain of events that leads to ozone depletion by human-produced chlorine. Between November 1999 and March 2000, the SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) provided scientists with measurements of ozone using a variety of satellite-, airplane-, balloon- and ground-based instruments. Scientists also obtained a comprehensive inventory of numerous other atmospheric gases and information on the physical and chemical properties of polar stratospheric clouds. The SOLVE mission was co-sponsored by the Upper Atmosphere Research Program, Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Project, Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Analysis Program, and Earth Observing System of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise as part of the validation program for the SAGE III instrument. Based primarily in Kiruna, Sweden, the campaign included scientists from the United States, Europe, Canada, Russia and Japan. A key aspect to the success of this mission was the permission to fly both NASA research aircraft over Russia. SOLVE was managed by the Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, with extensive participation by science teams from Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, as well as a number of other government laboratories and universities. The ER-2 and DC-8 aircraft are based at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, and the U.S. balloon operations in Sweden were conducted by a team from the National Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, TX.
HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON/ARCTIC …
A NASA high-altitude researc …
4/5/00
Date 4/5/00
Description A NASA high-altitude research balloon climbing to study the composition of the Arctic stratosphere from the Esrange Balloon Launch Facility near Kiruna, Sweden. With its helium bubble expanding to the size of a large building while in the stratosphere, the balloon carried a payload of about 450 Kg. (1000 lbs) to an altitude of about 30,500 meters (100,000 ft.). Following flight, the instrument payload lands by parachute and is recovered for subsequent flights. Between November 1999 and March 2000, the SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) provided scientists with measurements of ozone using a variety of satellite-, airplane-, balloon- and ground-based instruments. Scientists also obtained a comprehensive inventory of numerous other atmospheric gases and information on the physical and chemical properties of polar stratospheric clouds. The SOLVE mission was co-sponsored by the Upper Atmosphere Research Program, Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Project, Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Analysis Program, and Earth Observing System of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise as part of the validation program for the SAGE III instrument. Based primarily in Kiruna, Sweden, the campaign included scientists from the United States, Europe, Canada, Russia and Japan. A key aspect to the success of this mission was the permission to fly both NASA research aircraft over Russia. SOLVE was managed by the Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, with extensive participation by science teams from Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, as well as a number of other government laboratories and universities. The ER-2 and DC-8 aircraft are based at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, and the U.S. balloon operations in Sweden were conducted by a team from the National Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, TX.
OZONE INSTRUMENTS LOADED ON …
Scientists preparing their i …
4/5/00
Date 4/5/00
Description Scientists preparing their instruments for flight on the NASA ER-2 research aircraft inside the Arena Arctica hangar, Kiruna, Sweden. The plane carries dozens of instruments in two pods attached to the wings, in the Q-bay area below the cockpit and in the nose. These pieces of the plane can be detached allowing access to the instruments prior to take-off. Between November 1999 and March 2000, the SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) provided scientists with measurements of ozone using a variety of satellite-, airplane-, balloon- and ground-based instruments. Scientists also obtained a comprehensive inventory of numerous other atmospheric gases and information on the physical and chemical properties of polar stratospheric clouds. The SOLVE mission was co-sponsored by the Upper Atmosphere Research Program, Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Project, Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Analysis Program, and Earth Observing System of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise as part of the validation program for the SAGE III instrument. Based primarily in Kiruna, Sweden, the campaign included scientists from the United States, Europe, Canada, Russia and Japan. A key aspect to the success of this mission was the permission to fly both NASA research aircraft over Russia. SOLVE was managed by the Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, with extensive participation by science teams from Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, as well as a number of other government laboratories and universities. The ER-2 and DC-8 aircraft are based at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, and the U.S. balloon operations in Sweden were conducted by a team from the National Scientific Balloon Facility, Palestine, TX.
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