How a NASA Science Flight is No Ordinary Journey

Released Friday, March 24, 2017

ID: 12549

A group of scientists and pilots conducted a series of science flights over Western Colorado for a new five-year NASA-led airborne mission called SnowEx.

SnowEx is exploring better ways to measuring how much water is stored in snow-covered regions with the goal of eventually creating a future snow satellite mission. More accurate snow measurements will help scientists and decisions-makers better understand our world’s water supply and better predict floods and droughts.

Data acquired from the SnowEx campaign will be stored at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, and will be available to anyone to order at no cost, as is the case with all NASA data.

For more information:

NASA's SnowEx Challenges the Sensing Techniques...'Until They Break'

NASA: Snow Science in Support of Our Nation's Water Supply

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Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

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The SnowEx mission flew over specific flight lines in Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin where scientists were also on the ground collecting science data.

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The Navy P-3 Orion aircraft was used on the SnowEx mission.

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The Navy P-3 Orion aircraft was used on the SnowEx mission.

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Credits

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Scientists
- Edward Kim (NASA/GSFC)
- Eugenia De Marco (ATA Aerospace)
- Albert Wu (ATA Aerospace)
Producer
- Joy Ng (USRA)
Videographers
- Joy Ng (USRA)
- Ryan Cook (Freelance)
- Albert Wu (ATA Aerospace)
Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)