NASA Aircraft Will Fly Low Over Northern Colorado Farmland

When you think of NASA, what usually comes to mind? Space, right? For the most part, that is true; however, NASA does plenty of research within the confines of Earth's atmosphere, too.

NASA Research Flights Coming to Northern Colorado

white and yellow plane in mid air

Soon, NASA will be conducting low-altitude research flights over Northern Colorado in Weld County as part of an agricultural emissions exploration. The FarmFlux mission will deploy more than a dozen sensors to measure ozone, methane, ammonia, particulates, and other pollutants that rise from agricultural lands and farms.

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The Colorado deployment of these low-altitude flights is the first in the series for the FarmFlux mission. More flights are being scheduled in Amarillo, Texas, in the Midwest region, and in California's Central Valley with a focus on croplands.

The FarmFlux mission is jointly led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Colorado State University, and Boston University. The aircraft that will be used in this research is a Dynamic Aviation A200. Deployment of the project is expected to start on Thursday, October 1, 2026, and will conclude on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.

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More information on the FarmFlux research project can be found at nasa.gov.