ER-2 lifts off with MABEL - NASA

[tabatha]

On Dec. 7, 2010, the ER-2 lifts off with MABEL from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Palmdale, Calif., headed for a forested region in the Sierras. NASA scientists have previously measured tree heights and ground topography here, which will be used to better understand what MABEL "sees" from the sky.

Credit: Ryan Cargo, Sigma Space Corporation

To read a feature story on MABEL, go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/mabel-maiden.html

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MABEL Flies Her Maiden Voyage
01.24.11


NASA's ER-2 aircraft lifts off with MABEL On Dec. 7, 2010, the ER-2 lifts off with MABEL from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Palmdale, Calif., headed for a forested region in the Sierras. NASA scientists have previously measured tree heights and ground topography here, which will be used to better understand what MABEL "sees" from the sky. Credit: Ryan Cargo, Sigma Space Corporation

The star of this high-altitude show was a small, boxy instrument -- the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar (MABEL) -- tucked snugly inside the aircraft's nose. In an effort led by the instrument team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., MABEL made five flights last month to measure surface elevation over a series of targets across the U.S. Southwest.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/mabel-maiden.html

[DCKit]

1. MABEL is hawt!!!! nt

[Wilber_Stool]

2. ER-2?

Don't let them fool you. That's just a spit shined U-2. Nice to see it's still fling.

[tabatha]

3. Flinging what?