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For over ten years, NASA and NOAA
scientists have been eagerly waiting for

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this aircraft to be operational.

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And now it is, so we are ready to take this

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aircraft to all corners of this planet
to gather data that we've never been

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able to gather with any other aircraft.

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Our first science mission this winter is

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called Global Hawk Pacific

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and we call it GloPac for short.

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And that particular mission has 11 different instruments

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provided by NASA science, as well as, NOAA science.

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This is a partnership with NOAA on the science side

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and we'll be flying over all sorts of

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atmospheric phenomena throughout the

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Pacific Ocean, north of the equator