Editor’s note: Here’s a roundup of the latest eye-catching earth science videos from NASA and beyond. In March, snow emerged as a theme.
Where there is snow, there is water. Scientists trudged through thick white powder in Grand Mesa and the Senator Beck Basin to measure the depth of snow — and its water content — for the SnowEx campaign.
SIX SIDES AND A WHOLE LOT O’ COOL
A scientist with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission explains why snowflakes look the way they do.
SIX THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT SNOW
Did you know that 60 million Americans rely on snowmelt as their main source of water?
And if you’re not completely buried in white stuff, check out a National Geographic short documentary on a Colorado man who has been taking daily snow measurements for decades.
JUMPING TO LIGHT SPEED IN THE PURSUIT OF SNOW
“Photon Jump” tells the story of an exuberant photon. Follow this miniature light particle as s/he is spat out of a satellite sensor in Earth’s orbit. A team of students at Georgia’s Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) created the film for the upcoming ICESat-2 mission, which will measure snow and ice on Earth.
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