RTTNews covered a story about planes hovering over Denver for a month at a time this summer to study the city's air quality.
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Two NASA aircraft will be joined by a research aircraft from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for month-long flights beginning July 16 from the Research Aviation Facility maintained by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, NASA said.
The main study area extends along the Northern Front Range from the Denver metropolitan area in the south to Fort Collins in the north extending eastward from the mountains as far as Greeley. This area contains a diverse mixture of air pollution sources that include transportation, power generation, oil and gas extraction, agriculture, natural vegetation and episodic wildfires.
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