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SOFIA air-to-air over the Sierra Nevada Mountains

SOFIA air-to-air over the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Date: 
4/14/2010

With the sliding door over its 17-ton infrared telescope wide open, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA – soars over California's snow-covered Southern Sierras on a test flight.

Credit: 
NASA/Jim Ross
Image Number: 
OBS_0002
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Location: 
  • NASA
  • DLR
  • USRA
  • DSI
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Rob Landis
NASA
Project Manager

Naseem Rangwala
NASA
Project Scientist

Margaret Meixner, USRA
Science Mission Operations Director