NASA’s B200 taking off for an eight-hour science flight on March 5. Located on the center of the aircraft’s fuselage is the DopplerScatt radar instrument, developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

Engineers Raquel Rodriguez Monje and Fabien Nicaise discuss placement of the DopplerScatt radar instrument on the NASA B200 before its final installation onto the aircraft’s fuselage.

Radar operator Alexander Winteer monitors incoming wind data from the  DopplerScatt radar instrument during a science flight off the California Coast on March 5, 2018.