NASA Aims To Measure Vital Snow Data From Satellites

DENVER (AP) – Instrument-laden aircraft are surveying the Colorado high country this month as scientists search for better ways to measure how much water is locked up in the world’s mountain snows – water that sustains a substantial share of the global population.
A P-3 Orion gets ready to fly a mission to study the snowpack in western Colorado. (credit: CBS)
A NASA-led experiment called SnowEx is using five aircraft to test 10 sensors that might one day be used to monitor snow