Inside of the
Arena Arctica during RECONCILE.
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Francesco Cairo, Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche, Rome, Italy
conducts pre-flight checks of a lidar instrument
that measures
aerosols and clouds.
Photo credit: Ross Salawitch
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Christof Piesch and Andreas Ebersoldt of Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Germany
fill the dewer of the Michelson Interferometer for
Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)
instrument that measures a variety of
photochemically active gases.
This photo was taken about 4:45 am, prior to the
8:15 takeoff on 9 March 2010.
Photo credit: Ross Salawitch
These engines, built into
the fuselage, take the aircraft to 70,000 feet:
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Photo credit: Ross Salawitch
Here is a look at some of
the logos on the aircraft:
![](images/kiruna_2010/geophysica_logosA_thumb.jpg)
Photo credit:
Hideaki Nakajima
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Photo credits: Ross Salawitch
and the international flavor
of the mission:
![](images/kiruna_2010/geophysica_mipas_thumb.jpg)
![](images/kiruna_2010/geophysica_rome_thumb.jpg)
Photo credits: Ross Salawitch