2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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Figure 20 One stratospheric particle (upper right), captured following the Earth’s passage through the dust trail left by Comet Grigg-Skjellerup, was embedded into epoxy, microtomed into many 80 nm-thick slices (golden sections arcing from right to left), and examined using a transmission electron microscope to reveal successively higher magnification views of pre-solar matter (bottom two views). the nature of bacteria that hitch rides across oceans on stratospheric dust grains, revealing how biota spread across the planet. Because of targeted flights during a shower of grains from Comet Grigg-Skjellerup, we have now identified possible samples from a second comet, which appear so far to have the most primitive mineralogy of any known sample. For example, these particles contain the highest concentration of pre-solar stardust grains ever observed (see Figure 20), which means that they preserve the best record of the interstellar cloud of dust and gas from which out solar system formed. There are plans for future astromaterial collection campaigns in FY09 and beyond, including more potential comet target dates in the next couple of years. URL: http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov 34
ESA ATV Reentry Science Focus: Atmospheric Reentry Sponsor: A. Roberts, NASA HQ Location: South Pacific Ocean The DC-8 team supported an international, multi-instrument, airborne campaign to monitor the safe reentry of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Automated Transfer Vehicle over the South Pacific Ocean during the early morning hours of September 29, 2008. Along with the NASA DC-8 flight operations team, a science team consisting of members from ESA, SETI Institute, NASA Ames, and scientists from institutions across Europe, gathered high resolution data during ATV reentry. Instruments consisted of high speed video cameras, High Definition TV cameras, high resolution stills cameras, and spectrographic instruments. Two aircraft participated in the mission, the DC-8 from the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility and a private Gulfstream V jet operated by H211 LLC. The two aircraft deployed to Tahiti and were based at the Faa’a International Airport, in Papeete, from where the observation flights originated. The DC-8 four-channel Iridium multilink system was used successfully to transmit still pictures and a short video file of the reentry event to ESA in Europe while the DC-8 was returning from the observation mission and still over a thousand miles south of Tahiti. Also, pictures of the event were distributed by ESA to the news media that were then viewed by audiences before the DC-8 landed back in Tahiti. 35
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Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary
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AIRBORNE SCIENCE
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Airborne Sensor Technology Lab This
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Media, Education & Outreach NASA Ea
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outside of NASA. This past year, NA
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APPENDICES In Memoriam Airborne Pro
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The Founding and Early History of t
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APPENDIX D Acronyms & Abbreviations
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