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    NASA Aircraft Studies Tiny Particles with Atmospheric Impacts

    Two people walk in front of an airplane sitting on a snow covered runway. at sunset.

    Scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have turned to one of NASA’s high-altitude research planes to characterize a population of tiny particles in Earth’s lower stratosphere. Despite their small size, the study shows, the particles appear to play an outsized role in atmospheric chemistry. The findings, published April 23 in […]

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