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English: NASA's ER-2 High Altitude plane prepares for its first flight. There are nearly 100 hours of flight time planned through out the course of the campaign.

Credit: NASA/NOAA

During the 11-week GOES-16 Field Campaign, a team of instrument scientists, meteorologists, GOES-16 engineers, and specialized pilots will use an outfit of high-altitude planes, ground-based sensors, unmanned aircraft systems (or drones), the International Space Station, and the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP polar-orbiting satellite to collect measurements across the United States to support validation of the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper instruments.

Learn more: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/high-altitude-plane-takes-sky...
Date Taken on 16 March 2017, 07:39:33
Source GOES-16 Field Campaign
Author NOAASatellites
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GOES-16 Field Campaign
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postlaunchtest; goesr; er2; weathersatellite; fieldcampaign; nesdis; noaasatelliteandinformationservice; noaa; nasa; goes16; noaasatellites; nextgeneration; plt; satellite
Camera location34° 36′ 42.29″ N, 118° 04′ 39.57″ W  Heading=353.26° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NOAASatellites at https://flickr.com/photos/125201706@N06/33162223673. It was reviewed on 21 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

21 February 2024

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This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties.

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NASA's ER-2 High Altitude plane prepares for its first flight. There are nearly 100 hours of flight time planned through out the course of the campaign. . Credit: NASA/NOAA.

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