DC-8 aircraft ng NASA, lilipad sa ilang bahagi ng bansa upang kumuha ng air sample
DC-8 aircraft ng NASA, lilipad sa ilang bahagi ng bansa upang kumuha ng air sample
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00:00 The Philippines has now acquired the world's biggest flying laboratory
00:05 to conduct four country air quality tests starting this week.
00:09 The aircraft is the famous flying laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
00:16 or NASA, which is capable of analyzing pollution in the air.
00:22 This is Clay Zalfardilla in the Detail.
00:26 This is the DC-872 aircraft, the flying laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
00:33 It will fly to Metro Manila, Ilocos Norte, Cebu and Palawan to get samples in the air.
00:40 It will analyze the latest technologies that will be measured, analyzed and studied
00:46 on pollution in the air in some places in our country.
00:50 This is the DC-8 aircraft, the flying laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
00:57 or NASA, which will fly to Metro Manila, Ilocos Norte, Cebu and Palawan to get samples in the air.
01:07 It will analyze the latest technologies that will be measured, analyzed and studied
01:14 on pollution in the air in some places in our country.
01:18 The DC-8 aircraft is considered the world's biggest flying laboratory
01:24 that landed in Clark, Pampanga last Friday.
01:28 Here in the Philippines, the Airborne and Quality Investigation of Asian Air Quality Science Mission
01:36 or ASIA-AQ will start.
01:38 From February 11 to 15, the research aircraft will fly
01:44 with another smaller flying lab in the Philippines.
01:49 Our team climbed one of the two flying laboratories where the pilot, Gregory Slover,
01:58 and lab executive Barry Leffer will test the capacity of the so-called airplane.
02:03 When you take this DC-8 low altitude, you're getting the air molecules themselves.
02:07 As they go through and they go through a particular piece of the air,
02:11 they'll cap off that air cylinder and then they'll store that air cylinder and analyze it.
02:16 We can provide direct measurements of how much pollution is coming from different sources
02:22 and that's one of the primary inputs to the air quality forecasting models.
02:27 The Philippines is the first leg of the so-called Far Country Mission program.
02:32 South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia are included.
02:36 The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Secretary Maria Antonio Yulo-Layzaga,
02:43 is hoping that NASA's activities in the Philippines will serve as a guide
02:48 to make concrete regulations to make the air cleaner,
02:53 not just in the Philippines but also in other countries.
02:58 What we are wanting to do with this mission is understand all that is going on.
03:03 As it is seen from space, we need to understand in order to have policy and regulation
03:09 that is evidence-based regarding public health, regarding industrial compliance,
03:14 regarding of course the general ecosystem preservation and conservation.
03:19 Asia-AQ is a collaboration between the United States Agency and several countries in the Asian region
03:27 that is said to have the highest pollution link that's right in the whole world.
03:33 According to the Manila Observatory, 7 million people worldwide die every year due to air pollution.
03:42 The Philippines is one of them.
03:45 In the Philippines, that's about 100 people per 100,000 people die each year due to air pollution.
03:53 NASA said that it is possible to release the results of their air quality tests before the year ends.
04:02 Khaley Zalpardilla for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
04:08 Nice.