{"id":549482,"date":"2026-09-24T05:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=1049685"},"modified":"2026-09-24T05:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:03:03","slug":"nasa-aircraft-to-make-low-altitude-research-flights-over-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=549482","title":{"rendered":"NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Research Flights Over Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photo of the Dynamic Aviation A200 aircraft, which will conduct low-flying research flights over farmland near Greeley, Colorado, to measure emissions in October 2026. <\/div>\n
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Agricultural emissions represent an important and understudied part of Earth\u2019s land and atmosphere systems. The FarmFlux mission will deploy more than a dozen sensors to measure ozone, methane, ammonia, particulates, and other pollutants rising from agricultural lands and animal farms and the interaction with the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. The mission is jointly led by NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Colorado State University; and Boston University. <\/p>\n

The Colorado deployment is the first series of flights for the FarmFlux mission. Additional low-altitude research flights are scheduled over farmland in Amarillo, Texas, from late October to early November. For the March to July 2027 growing season, research flights with a NASA P-3 Orion aircraft are scheduled in the Midwest and California\u2019s Central Valley with a focus on croplands. <\/p>\n

For more information about the FarmFlux mission, visit:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/espo.nasa.gov\/farmflux<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Sharon Teitelbaum<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley<\/p>\n

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Agricultural emissions represent an important and understudied\u00a0part of Earth\u2019s land and atmosphere systems.\u00a0The\u00a0FarmFlux\u00a0mission will\u00a0deploy more than a dozen sensors to\u00a0measure ozone, methane, ammonia,\u00a0particulates, and other pollutants rising from agricultural lands and animal farms and the interaction with the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. The mission is jointly led by NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Colorado [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15621,15606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ames-research-center","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t