In this 3-minute, 30-second video, you can take a look inside the cockpit of NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 aircraft as it descends for landing at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay. This month scientists have been using the aircraft to collect data on coral reef health and volcanic emissions and eruptions. Flying at 65,000 feet, above 95 percent of Earth's atmosphere, the ER-2 has a unique ability to replicate the data a future satellite could collect. Data from this mission will help in developing a planned NASA satellite mission to study natural hazards and ecosystems called Hyperspectral Infrared Imager, or HyspIRI.
The ER-2 high-altitude aircraft is operated by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
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