Snow Scientists Dig Deep in Grand Mesa

  • Released Monday, May 18, 2020
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Music: "Storm Chasers," "Black Coffee," "From Small Beginnings," Universal Production Music

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NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team concluded their second year in March 2020. 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.

Carrie Vuyovich provides a wrap up of the final day of field work.

Getting dressed to go out on the mesa.

HP Marshall describes the project flights during SnowEx 2020.

Scenes of snowmobile riding through the mesa study area.

B-roll package from the SnowEx 2020 campaign in Grand Mesa, Colorado.

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This page was originally published on Monday, May 18, 2020.
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