Ask HN: What Was NASA817 Up to over California?

2 points by mastry 6y ago ↗ HN

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.

[1] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA817/history/20190722/1800Z/KPMD/KBOI

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caycep 6y ago ↗

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