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In late October 2012, a flight team from New Mexico State University, assisted by engineers from Sandia National Laboratories, completed the first in a series of test flights to evaluate various unmanned aircraft systems in the frigid Arctic conditions at the North Slope of Alaska.
These autonomous systems hold the potential to complete remotely-operated research flights over the Arctic Ocean from the ARM Climate Research Facility’s newest mobile observation station at Oliktok Point, Alaska.
Original footage provided by Fred Helsel, Sandia National Laboratories.
Video produced by Nathan Johnson and Lynne Roeder, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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