NASA's ER-2 High-altitude Aircraft Supports IMPACTS Mission

NASA's ER-2 High-altitude Aircraft Supports IMPACTS Mission | Airborne Science

The NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft supported the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Storms (IMPACTS) mission. For this mission, the IMPACTS team tracked storms across the Eastern United States to help understand how winter storms form and develop. The aircraft, which is based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, was temporarily based at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia. The three-year IMPACTS campaign concluded on Feb. 28, 2023.

Credit: NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC)/Carla Thomas

Image Date: Jan. 29, 2023 

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