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DC-8 Flies FIREX-AQ Mission
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NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory carried the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, or FIREX-AQ, science team and a suite of state-of-the-art instrumentation to observe different components of fire smoke in varying altitudes and weather. The aircraft is based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.
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Credit lineDC-8 Flies FIREX-AQ Mission. NASA/AFRC, 2019-07-18. Public domain. ID: AFRC2019-0101-062.
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