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NASA is sending a research aircraft high

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above the Pacific Ocean to study a

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region of the atmosphere near the

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equator that is extremely important to

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regulating the Earth's climate the

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deployment to Andersen Air Force Base in

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Guam is part of a multi-year NASA

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airborne science campaign called the

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airborne tropical tropopause experiment

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or eight tracks mission managed by NASA

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Ames Research Center the atrix mission

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will fly a Global Hawk aircraft to

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collect data within the upper atmosphere

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the unmanned Global Hawk is based at

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nasa's dryden flight research center in

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california and can fly at tropical

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tropopause altitudes of about 65,000

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feet for flights lasting up to 30 hours

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what this gives us is an ability to

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reach places that we can't reach and

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maybe more importantly you know if we

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found a phenomena that we're interested

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in studying we can stay there and look

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at it in detail for quite a few hours

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the goal of the atrix mission is to use

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this data to improve our understanding

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of the physical processes that occur in

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our atmosphere and help to make better