Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever
Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 17, 202010m 38s
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Show Notes
Inside a cavernous hangar at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility along the Virginia coast, a gleaming white P-3 Orion aircraft sits parked under harsh floodlights. It’s just after midnight and a group of scientists, technicians and graduate students cluster underneath a wing, peering at a 5-inch crack in one of the ailerons that the pilot uses to maneuver the plane. Their disappointment is palpable.
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