airborne snow observatory

NASA has begun a new project called the “Airborne Snow Observatory” that is mounted within a Twin Otter aircraft flying at 17,500-22,000-feet over the Tuolumne River Basin in California’s Sierra Nevada as well as over Colorado’s Uncompahgre River Basin.  This NASA mission will map the entire snowpack of two critical water sheds in California & Colorado mountains.  The watershed in California […]