NASA to Conduct Low-Altitude Flights Over Texas Farmland
NASA will fly a Dynamic Aviation A200 aircraft at low altitudes over farmland near Transit, Texas, to measure agricultural emissions. The research flights are scheduled to run from Thursday, October 22, through Monday, November 9.
NASA will fly a Dynamic Aviation A200 aircraft at low altitudes over farmland near Transit, Texas, to measure agricultural emissions. The research flights are scheduled to run from Thursday, October 22, through Monday, November 9. According to NASA, the flights are part of the FarmFlux mission, which investigates gaseous and particulate emissions from animal feeding operations.
The mission deploys more than a dozen sensors to measure ozone, methane, ammonia, and other pollutants rising from farms and crop lands, as well as their interactions with the atmosphere. The multi-institutional project is jointly led by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Colorado State University, and Boston University.
Researchers target agricultural emissions because they represent an understudied component of Earth's land and atmosphere systems. Additional low-altitude flights utilizing a NASA P-3 Orion aircraft are planned for the March through July 2027 growing season, expanding the study to croplands in the Midwest and California’s Central Valley.
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