How a NASA Science Flight is No Ordinary Journey
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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.
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NASA's SnowEx Challenges the Sensing Techniques...'Until They Break'
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Feb. 23, 2021, 7 p.m.
Read moreMusic: Universal Production Music.This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by pond5.com and Boise State University and is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html.Complete transcript available.Notes on footage:0:31 - 3:28 provided by Matt Crook/Boise State University3:28 - 3:36 provided by pond5.com NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team began their new field study year in January 2021. Not only is SnowEx learning valuable information about how snow properties change by terrain and season, but they are also testing the tools NASA will need to sample snow from space.
NASA Studies Snow At The Winter Olympics
Feb. 8, 2018, 8 a.m.
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NASA Investigates Water Supply in Snow
Feb. 16, 2017, 5 a.m.
Read moreComplete transcript available.Music credit: by Laurent Dury [SACEM] from Killer Tracks Music This February, a NASA-led research campaign called SnowEx kicked off in Colorado. The 5-year study will advance global measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much liquid water is contained in that snow. The amount of water in snow plays a huge role in water availability for drinking water, agriculture, and hydropower.Teams of 50 researchers are stationed at Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin over a three-week period to measure snow using a variety of snow-sensing instruments and techniques. Ground measurements will allow the team to validate the remotely sensed measurements acquired by multiple sensors on the various aircraft.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: https://www.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/
SnowEx Field Campaign: 4K B-roll From The P-3 Orion Aircraft
Feb. 22, 2017, noon
Read moreDuring the 2017 SnowEx field campaign, the P-3 Orion aircraft flew over Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin in Colorado. SnowEx is a NASA led multi-year research campaign to improve measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much liquid water is contained in that snow.Five aircraft with a total of ten different sensors will participate in the SnowEx campaign. From a base of operations at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, SnowEx will deploy a P-3 Orion aircraft operated by the Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. A King Air plane will fly out of Grand Junction, Colorado, while high-altitude NASA jets will fly from Johnson Space Center in Houston.The planes will carry passive and active microwave sensors that are good at measuring snow-water equivalent in dry snow, but are less optimal for measuring snow forests or light snow cover. The campaign will also deploy an airborne laser instrument to measure snow depth, and airborne sensors to measure surface temperature and reflected light from snow.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: https://www.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions The P-3 Orion aircraft was stationed at the Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. A collection of 4K b-roll captured during a science flight on the P-3 Orion aircraft.
SnowEx Field Campaign: B-roll From The P-3 Orion Aircraft
Feb. 13, 2017, 9 p.m.
Read moreA collection of b-roll captured from the Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs of the P-3 Orion aircraft. SnowEx is a NASA led multi-year research campaign to improve measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much liquid water is contained in that snow.Five aircraft with a total of ten different sensors will participate in the SnowEx campaign. From a base of operations at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, SnowEx will deploy a P-3 Orion aircraft operated by the Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. A King Air plane will fly out of Grand Junction, Colorado, while high-altitude NASA jets will fly from Johnson Space Center in Houston. The planes will carry passive and active microwave sensors that are good at measuring snow-water equivalent in dry snow, but are less optimal for measuring snow forests or light snow cover. The campaign will also deploy an airborne laser instrument to measure snow depth, and airborne sensors to measure surface temperature and reflected light from snow.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: https://www.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions A collection of b-roll captured during a science flight from Colorado Springs over Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin. A collection of b-roll captured of the view during a SnowEx science flight over Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin in Colorado. A collection of b-roll captured from Patuxent River in Maryland where snow sensors were integrated into the P-3 Orion aircraft. A collection of b-roll captured from Patuxent River in Maryland where snow sensors were integrated into the P-3 Orion aircraft.
SnowEx Field Campaign: B-roll From Grand Mesa
Feb. 12, 2017, 7 p.m.
Read moreA collection of b-roll captured from the Grand Mesa in Colorado. SnowEx is a NASA led multi-year research campaign to improve measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much liquid water is contained in that snow.Starting in February, teams of 50 researchers are stationed at Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin over a three-week period to measure snow using a variety of snow-sensing instruments and techniques.Ground measurements will allow the team to validate the remotely-sensed measurements acquired by the multiple sensors on the various aircraft.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: https://www.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/