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Fly Along with ACT-America

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This Fly Along video shows the ACT-America aircraft in flight over Pennsylvania in July 2016. The circles behind the aircraft represent carbon dioxide measurements taken continuously during the flight.

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Fly along with the Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America (ACT-America) as they sample the air above the Eastern United States on July 26, 2016.

ACT-America Tracks Atmospheric Carbon

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The Atmospheric Carbon and Transport America (ACT-America) project is conducting airborne campaigns across three regions in the eastern United States to study the transport of atmospheric carbon.

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NASA's ACT-America mission measured atmospheric CO2, CO, CH4, and O3 concentrations across the Eastern USA in 2016.