Airborne Science

Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA

July 30, 2026

The gusty wind didn’t make it easy to hold tight to a balloon so large. The balloon, a…

$A collage of four vertical aerial photographs showing different views of sea ice. From left to right: 1) A vibrant orange and red sunset glowing just above the horizon over a vast expanse of dark blue, shadowed sea ice. 2) A view from an aircraft window showing a section of the plane's wing in the foreground, overlooking a sprawling plain of blue-tinted ice beneath a clear sky that fades to pink at the horizon. 3) A view looking past an airplane's dark engine cowling and propeller blade, showing bright white sea ice fractured by a network of dark, branching cracks under a bright, hazy sun. 4) A downward aerial view of heavily textured, bright white sea ice split by a wide, jagged, dark crack (a lead) exposing the open water beneath.$

July 10, 2026

This month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will…

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ROSES-25 A.12 HAMAQ Science Team Clarified

June 29, 2026

Hemispheric Airborne Measurements of Air Quality (HAMAQ) is a NASA-funded project under the EVS-4 program using two aircraft…

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The white 777 aircraft can be seen touching down on a long runway with a row of grass along the pavement at NASA's Langley Research Center.

April 22, 2026

NASA’s Boeing 777 has returned to the agency’s fleet after undergoing heavy structural modifications as it transforms from…

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Two computer monitors are shown from the perspective of looking over a researcher's shoulder. The screens show colorful graphs representing smoke and aerosol measurements from previous missions with the HALO lidar instrument.

January 29, 2026

A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The…

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The image shows an aerial view of the Chesapeake Bay, with groves of trees, rivers, a body of water in the distance, and green land. The horizon, a third of the way down the image, separates the blue cloudy sky from the land. On the right of the image is a white wing of a plane.

September 24, 2025

Magic is in the air. No wait… MAGEQ is in the air, featuring scientists from NASA centers across…

Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA

ROSES-25 A.12 HAMAQ Science Team Clarified

NASA’s 777 Aircraft Returns with Science Flights on Horizon

NASA Science Flights Venture to Improve Severe Winter Weather Warnings

NASA Aircraft Coordinate Science Flights to Measure Air Quality