Ready for takeoff? 🛫 NASA aircraft fly all over the world, carrying science instruments that collect data about our planet. Studying Earth from the air is an important link between NASA's field research on the ground and NASA satellite data from orbit. 🌎 Video description: The NASA802 aircraft, a small passenger plane, sits on the tarmac. The video cuts to a NASA pilot in the cockpit as she flies the plane. Next is an animation of an aircraft with an inverted triangle indicating the radar that scientists use to study the ground below. The plane and radar move over an aerial view of trees and rivers in Alaska. Then an instrument technician is shown sitting in the plane before a computer with several data screens and a tablet with a map showing the flight path and current location. The video then cuts to an aerial view of trees, lakes and rivers below. The video ends with a shot inside the cockpit as the pilots land the plane. #Earth #NASA #EarthScience #Airplane #EarthFromAbove #RemoteSensing