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Flying lab for geoscience students

AUG 14, 2009
Physics Today

NPR : NASA is taking to the skies to encourage a new generation of scientists to study Earth.The agency is hoping its new Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), a six-week session that includes research aboard a DC-8 flying laboratory , will get young people excited about solving problems like warming oceans, rising carbon dioxide levels, and new pollutants in the air.

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