Ask HN: What Was NASA817 Up to over California?

2 pointsby mastryalmost 6 years ago

It looks like some kind of a search pattern [1], but I can't think of a good reason to do that in a DC-8.<p>[1] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA817/history/20190722/1800Z/KPMD/KBOI

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caycepalmost 6 years ago

geographically, wildfire surveillance? atmospheric chemistry monitoring? just speculation...