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    A Breathtaking View – Literally

    Credit: NASA / Jessica Merzdorf

    By Jessica Merzdorf / GRAND MESA LODGE, COLORADO After visiting with part of the SnowEx 2020 airborne team, we headed up the mountain to rendezvous with the ground team, stationed at Grand Mesa Lodge. "Does anyone have a headache?" asked Jerry Newlin, SnowEx operations manager, as we left the little town of Delta and the …

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    Snow Science Two Miles in the Sky

    Grand Mesa, Colorado has an elevation of 10,500 feet, and from the Land's End Observatory, you can see across the valley to Utah. The large, flat surface of the mesa is perfect for SnowEx 2020's instrument testing and validation activities. Credit: NASA / Jessica Merzdorf

    By Jessica Merzdorf / GRAND MESA LODGE, COLORADO What is it like to do science nearly 2 miles above sea level? At a majestic 10,500 feet elevation, Grand Mesa is the world's tallest mesa, or flat-topped mountain. It's also the site of an intense month of data collection by NASA's SnowEx 2020, a ground and …

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