Posted on 06/24/2011 7:19:47 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
WASHINGTON (WJZ)—Don’t panic if you see large planes flying unusually low over Maryland roadways next week. It’s all part of a major plan by NASA to help study air pollution over major cities.
Derek Valcourt explains where you’ll be seeing some of those low-flying planes.
The study will focus on air pollution over many of Maryland’s major roads, from Baltimore’s beltway, to the 95 corridor, even over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
This is no ordinary plane, it’s a specially fitted NASA aircraft designed with equipment to measure air pollution levels in flight. And starting next week the skies over Maryland will become a pollution detection playground for the plane and for NASA scientists.
“The public I think is very interested in knowing where air pollution problems are the largest, and then they have the ability to make their own decisions about their own activities and times and places they would like to avoid,” said Dr. James Crawford, NASA atmospheric scientist.
Maryland’s Department of Environment already has six pollution monitoring stations on the ground, but they’re spread out and only can tell you pollution levels in the immediate area.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...
Excellent !
Has anyone suggested National Arabic and Shiite Administration ?
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We’re just cashing in our courtesy sniff.
You gotta smell this.
I live in Maryland , and I can smell the stench of O’Malley from my home.
“Negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full.”
Me too. :(
Clever!!!
Clever!!!
Tell you what:
Go to Mars, would you? Leave the undie sniffing to the EPA. That they have money for this, but not for exploration, or even ‘Muslim Outreach’ is beyond me.
Well, I’m dissapointed that they stopped looking for that planet with the really sexy “green” colored chicks...
Capt. Kirk got some of that, but the question is would YOU kiss a fine lookin’ “green” woman from another planet???
For the record...I’m color blind...Many FReepers I know personally will vouch for that fact...;-)
I miss the old NASA...I really do...
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