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NASA ER-2 Aircraft Supports INSPYRE Earth Science Campaign

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NASA ER-2 Aircraft Supports INSPYRE Earth Science Campaign

An ER‑2 aircraft based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, carries a pod full of instruments for the INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment (INSPYRE) on Thursday, July 9, 2026. This Earth science campaign studies wildfire‑generated thunderstorms. Researchers are seeking to better understand how these storms form, how high the storms send smoke, where this smoke travels, and the effect after the smoke reaches upper layers of the atmosphere.

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NASA ER-2 Aircraft Supports INSPYRE Earth Science Campaign. Credit: NASA / AFRC.

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