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A Pilot’s Life at 65,000 Feet over Alaska
As the ER-2 pilot got ready for his first flight out of Fairbanks, I wondered what it’s like piloting the aircraft, all by himself, 65,000 feet up. Denis Steele sets up a video camera in the cockpit of...
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Charting MABEL’s course
For more than 65 hours this month, NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 aircraft flew from Fairbanks over melting sea ice, glaciers, forests, permafrost, lakes, volcanoes and more. It zigged and zagged over the...
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Preparing for the Trip North
A new NASA airborne campaign known as ARISE, or the Arctic Radiation – IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment, will take measurements intended to help researchers better understand the role that clouds play...
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May the 4STAR Be With You
The Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR) mounted on top of NASA’s C-130 research aircraft.Credit: NASA The Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric...
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Flying With ARISE
Editor’s note: The following is a first-hand account of ARISE survey flights by one of the mission’s researchers. Above the clouds on NASA’s C-130 during an ARISE survey flight. Credit: NASA / Michal...
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Bringing It All Together: Planning ARISE
ARISE project manager Christy Hansen stands in front of the NASA C-130. Credit: NASA Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska, day 9 of our deployment: We are currently sitting together in our mission...
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Picturing Sea Ice with ARISE’s Digital Camera Instrument
The dark blue in this image is a lead, or opening in sea ice. If you look closely you can see where the lead is starting to refreeze at the edges. Credit: NASA Flying above, below and through clouds in...
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More Flying with ARISE
Editor’s note: The following is a first-hand account of ARISE survey flights by one of the mission’s researchers. To see the first two days’ accounts, visit:...
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Spruce Beetles in Alaska
This summer a team of scientists from NASA Goddard, American University, and the Forest Service are conducting joint field work and flights with Goddard’s LiDAR, Hyperspectral, and Thermal Imager...
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Spruce Beetles and Shrubberies
This week while the GLiHT crew continued collecting data over the Susitna and Tanana valleys, we focused on collecting on-the-ground data on spruce beetle infestation. Our first day out proved rainy...
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