Members of GSAAS along with students from other local schools, help in NASA's project to improve air quality.

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"No, that's wasn’t a UFO in the skies above Maryland!
If you were driving along the I-95 corridor in Maryland Sunday, you might have seen a mysterious, low-flying aircraft overhead.
It was part of a NASA experiment aimed at helping to improve the air we breathe.
Scientists from some area colleges, including Howard University, the University of Maryland, Penn State and Lincoln University, were helping NASA monitor air quality.
The space agency sent up a four-engine, P-3B turboprop plane that flew a corkscrew pattern over six area ground monitoring stations, from the DC Beltway to northeast of Baltimore.
They were sampling ozone and other pollutants in the atmosphere. NASA hopes its multi-year study will help improve the ability of satellites to detect pollution near the ground, so they can better predict and control it.
Sunday's air quality levels measured above 78 parts per billion, in the Code Yellow range."

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