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    Lightspeed: A Marvelous Method for Measuring Mountain Snow

    The field site at Cameron Pass, Colorado.

    By Dan McGrath and Randall Bonnell, Colorado State University /CAMERON PASS, COLORADO/ The word lightspeed conjures different images for different people. Star Wars fans may connect lightspeed to the Millennium Falcon, while radar scientists may think of the velocity of electromagnetic energy. Radio waves, a form of electromagnetic energy, travel at "lightspeed" through a vacuum, …

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