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Bo LeMay is one of seven pilots participating in a NASA project called INSPYRE, which began this summer to study pyrocumulonimbus clouds, by sending planes into them to collect samples and data. The project’s scientists, he said, “want to fly ideally through the top of the thunderstorm.”
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The mission, which began this summer, sent planes into pyrocumulonimbus clouds to study the unique thunderstorms.
