This high-altitude research plane, a specially equipped Dryden Flight Research Center ER-2, stops at Patrick Air Force Base long enough for visitors to get a close view. The modified U-2 aircraft, soaring above 65,000 feet, will measure the structure of hurricanes and the surrounding atmosphere that steers the storms movement. The plane is part of the NASA-led Atmospheric Dynamics and Remote Sensing program that includes other government weather researchers and the university community in a study of Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms. The hurricane study, which lasts through September 1998, is part of NASAs Earth Science enterprise to better understand the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment

This high-altitude research plane, a specially equipped Dryden Flight Research Center ER-2, stops at Patrick Air Force Base long enough for visitors to get a close view. The modified U-2 aircraft, soaring above 65,000 feet, will measure the structure of hurricanes and the surrounding atmosphere that steers the storms movement. The plane is part of the NASA-led Atmospheric Dynamics and Remote Sensing program that includes other government weather researchers and the university community in a study of Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms. The hurricane study, which lasts through September 1998, is part of NASAs Earth Science enterprise to better understand the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment
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