Tomsk Oblast 57.45 N 85.96 E 11:30 pm Siberia, 11:30 am EST High: 60 F Low 62 F Light rain It’s been quite a long day on the road. We spent about 11 hours today working our way about 700 km through the countryside to find this campsite. We got in as the sun was going […]
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia 56.2° N 92.5°E 10:20 PM Siberia; 10:20 AM next day EST Temp: High: 62°F Low: 41°F Wind: light Some fog Hello from Siberia! We’ve finally arrived safely and happily in Krasnoyarsk. Weather is good here. It’s slightly cool and rainy, without any sign of the smoke and foul air that we’ve heard about from […]
Dr. Jon Ranson is an earth scientist specializing in radar, lidar and remote sensing. As NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DESDynI Lidar Project Scientist and Head of the NASA GFSC Biospheric Sciences Branch in Greenbelt, Maryland, he uses these tools for studying vegetation type and biomass in ecosystem research. Under his guidance the Branch is […]
Western Siberia is, in places, remote. However, much of the region can be accessed by a system of roads and rivers. When planning this expedition, the scientists needed to find the location of GLAS footprints – measurements taken by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System aboard the ICESat Satellite – in the area as well as find routes to enter those […]
An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Jon Ranson, Head of the Biospheric Sciences Branch at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Dr. Slava Kharuk of the Sukachev Forest Institute are heading to Siberia this August to study the regions forests. They will work in austere conditions to collect data related to the Earth’s […]
In the very beginning of this blog, I had promised to reveal why noise created by electric guitars pedals&s reminded me of the kind of science we faced during CARES. So, after the closing of the campaign, I want to keep that promise. A microphone in front of an amplifier can generate an endless reverb, […]
It is 6:30 AM and you are waiting for the morning weather briefing to start, in which the meteorological conditions for the next few days are laid out and the science teams go over their flight plans for the day. You were up late last night putting the final touches on the flight plan for […]
Just a brief heads-up, to signal a couple of particularly interesting links. You can check the status of the mission at any time by pointing your browser at this public Wiki page, and make sure we deliver our promises of “flying around” all over California by following the B-200 trajectories on Flight Aware. Just enter NASA529 […]
Why is our satellite mission named “Glory”? I can give you an explanation based on this short movie, which I captured from a downward looking camera on the B-200 during a recent flight. While descending for landing, we encountered a cloud deck, and I received a clue for what, in geek terms, we call a scattering angle of […]
As previously stated, it is Cool like in Cool, CA. Our first science meeting took place midway between T0 (McClellan Air Force Base) and T1 (Cool), so I couldn’t get a better chance to drive to the site that marks our downwind sampling location (T1, that is). Off Rt. 80, you’ve got to follow the […]
