Photo by NASA
A Lockheed P-3B is parked outside of Everts Air Alaska's hanger at the Fairbanks International Airport. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's aircraft along with others and other government agencies are in town as part of NASA’s Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites. The program will use aircraft and satellites to take samples of pollution particles and gases in order to study arctic haze. Arctic haze is caused by pollution and found in the atmosphere at high altitudes in the Arctic. They will be basing their research out of Fairbanks through April 20.