The Science of Snow: Digging for Data

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    ID: 13851 Produced Video

    Snow Scientists in the Windswept Montana Prairie

    May 12th, 2021
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Music: "Timelapse," "A New Dawn," Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.Footage provided by Harrison Bach. For licensing information, contact hbach21@gmail.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. ||

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    ID: 13820 Produced Video

    NASA and Partners Get Back into Snow Business

    Feb. 24th, 2021
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Music: "Beautiful Serenity," "Frozen Waves," 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 ||

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    ID: 13610 Produced Video

    Snow Scientists Dig Deep in Grand Mesa

    May 18th, 2020
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Music: "Storm Chasers," "Black Coffee," "From Small Beginnings," Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || 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. ||

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    ID: 12549 Produced Video

    How a NASA Science Flight is No Ordinary Journey

    March 24th, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    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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    ID: 12496 B-Roll

    SnowEx Field Campaign: 4K B-roll From The P-3 Orion Aircraft

    Feb. 22nd, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    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 ||

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    ID: 12489 B-Roll

    SnowEx Field Campaign: B-roll From The P-3 Orion Aircraft

    Feb. 14th, 2017
    (updated Aug. 25th, 2023)

    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 ||

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