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This NASA ER-2 high altitude plane equipped with advanced instrumentation is ready to take off from Warner Robins Air Force Base in Georgia to hunt lightning as part of phase 2 of the GOES-16 field campaign.
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English: This NASA ER-2 high altitude plane equipped with advanced instrumentation is ready to take off from Warner Robins Air Force Base in Georgia to hunt lightning as part of phase 2 of the GOES-16 field campaign. The second phase of the field campaign focused on validating the satellite’s lightning mapper. By clearly measuring a lone, well-defined lighting flash with the plane’s instruments, GOES-16’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), and various ground sensors, scientists can perform an important “one-to-one” comparison to hone in on the GLM’s detection threshold, or sensitivity, for light. The GOES-16 Field Campaign, a two-month effort to calibrate and validate the Earth-viewing instruments on NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite, completed mission operations in May.
Credit: NASA Learn more about phase 2 of the field campaign at www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/hunting-lightning-day-goes-16... Read a recap of phase 1 of the field campaign at www.goes-r.gov/mission/phaseOneComplete.html An overview of the field campaign can be found at www.goes-r.gov/mission/fieldCampaignBegins.html |
| Date | Taken on 20 April 2017, 17:27:07 |
| Source | NASA’s ER-2 Aircraft Prepares to Take Off |
| Author | NOAASatellites |
| Flickr set | GOES-16 Field Campaign |
| Flickr tags | lightning; goesr; postlaunchtest; er2; fieldcampaign; glm; abi; noaa; nasa; warnerrobinsafb; geostationarylightningmapper; noaasatellites; goes16; lightningdetection; goesrseries; plt; calibration; validation |
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