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NASA - the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration - is usually associated with matters of space and aliens. So when we are told that NASA is sending two modified jets to Cape Town in a campaign incorporating airborne imaging spectroscopy, lidar and field observations across South Africa's lands, we all immediately wonder if the organisation is seeking out extraterrestrial life forms here.
But hey, something might just pop out of protea - who knows? In support of the BioSCape programme, the NASA Gulfstream III and possibly a Gulfstream V will be arriving in the region and will do the hard science yards in just a six-week window period.