NASA's "Dragon Lady" Reveals How Wildfires Generate Storms
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By Emma Balleste, CNN NASA uses a modified version of the U-2 spy plane, created during the Cold War, to study one of the least understood weather phenomena on Earth: storms generated by forest fires.The aircraft, which NASA calls ER-2, houses a scientific laboratory equipped with research instruments instead The post NASA's "Dragon Lady" reveals how forest fires generate storms appeared first on KVIA.
The US space agency reported that a direct link has been detected between wildfires and thunderstorms, based on data obtained by an aircraft called "Lady Dragon." This is an adapted variant of the U-2 reconnaissance model, developed during the Cold War, designed to investigate this atmospheric phenomenon, one of the most enigmatic on the planet. The aircraft, designated by the agency as ER-2, incorporates a research laboratory with scientific eq…
NASA is using a modified version of the U-2 spy plane, created during the Cold War, to study one of Earth's least understood meteorological phenomena: storms generated by forest fires. The jet, which NASA calls ER-2, contains a flying laboratory of scientific instruments instead of military defenses and has a different wiring. The aircraft's latest mission is to study storms generated by meteorological phenomena.
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