NASA Lockheed ER-2 Aids Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response

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NASA Deploys Planes, Targets Satellites to Aid in Oil Spill Response

May 11, 2010

WASHINGTON - NASA has mobilized its remote-sensing assets to help assess the spread and impact of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at the request of U.S. disaster response agencies.

As part of the national response to the spill, NASA deployed its instrumented research aircraft the Earth Resources-2 (ER-2) to the Gulf on May 6. The agency is also making extra satellite observations and conducting additional data processing to assist the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Department of Homeland Security in monitoring the spill.

"NASA has been asked to help with the first response to the spill, providing imagery and data that can detect the presence, extent, and concentration of oil," said Michael Goodman, program manager for natural disasters in the Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "We also have longer-term work we have started in the basic research of oil in the ocean and its impacts on sensitive coastal ecosystems."

At NOAA's request, NASA sent the ER-2 outfitted with the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) and the Cirrus Digital Camera System to collect detailed images of the Gulf of Mexico and its threatened coastal wetlands. The camera system is supplied by NASAs Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.

NASA pilots flew the ER-2 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California to a temporary base of operations at Johnson Space Center's Ellington Field in Houston. Along the way, the plane collected data over the Gulf coast and the oil slick to support spill mapping and document the condition of coastal wetlands before oil landfall. The ER-2 made a second flight on May 10 and more flights are planned.

The AVIRIS team led by Robert Green of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is measuring how the water absorbs and reflects light in order to map the location and concentration of oil, which separates into a widespread, thin sheen and smaller thick patches. Satellites can document the overall extent of the oil but cannot distinguish between the sheen and thick patches. While the sheen represents most of the area of the slick, the majority of the oil is concentrated in the thicker part. AVIRIS should be able to identify the thicker parts, helping oil spill responders know where to deploy oil-skimming boats and absorbent booms.

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[aseohosting]

wow interesting video

[OftenRatherAmused]

@Laschy46 That it is.

From wikipedia:

/wiki/Lockheed_U-2

Scroll down to the "Operational History" Section and it's even got a photo.

[Feuerwaffen]

@unitywave get out of here faggot airplanes ftw

[FfejTball]

@EdisunSola The teabaggers are definitely not the solution. There may be incompetence in the whitehouse, but there is a severe lack of intelligence in the tea party.

[theninja222]

@EdisunSolar Stop being a snob.

[STEVEDIGIBOYtv]

The majority of oil and toxins are at 2000ft down, the surface slick may not represent the volume in loop current and subsequent atlantic current flowing it back to UK and BP. Strange world, extinction level incident approaching once current become cooled with oil sucking up heat.

[CiNtRaX]

@dynamicwolf

;)

[dynamicwolf]

@CiNtRaX

estoy de acuerdo, amigo.

[TheSolarmike]

Bp said there not going to drill for oil at that well anymore but there is around 90 more oil drilling platforms in the gulf area! Wait till a hurricane blows in and mixes up that oil!

[Laschy46]

it looks exactly like a U2