It takes two planes to discover more about snowstorms. ✈️ engineering
These types of planes,
, are used to report the weather and they are part of the space agency's Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Storms mission basedYou might be wondering: why not use satellites instead of endangering pilots? NASA and its partners do indeed have several satellites in orbit capable of measuring precipitation from space.
The second aircraft is the P-3 Orion and features probes hanging off its wings. These probes measure the size, shape, and distribution of precipitation particles allowing scientists to evaluate the size and shape of snow particles throughout the clouds as well as the temperature, water vapor, and other conditions in which they form.
“A project like IMPACTS can really complement those spacecraft measurements with aircraft measurements that are higher resolution, higher accuracy, sample an event more frequently, and provide additional parameters such as Doppler measurements,” said John Yorks, one of the deputy principal investigators for IMPACTS.
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