Gus Goodbody and John Fitzgerald are standing in a snow pit
checking snow density high within Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.
The snow depth is about 2.2 meters. Click on image for full size
Courtesy of CLPX NASA Land Surface Hydrology Program Super
Scientists Study Snow! News story originally written on February
21, 2003 Snow is fun! It can be made into snowballs or snow
angels. It can even cause school to be cancelled. Many
scientists think that snow is pretty interesting too. This week,
scientists and college students began a project to look at the
snow that is in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. They are looking at
it from many different places - from the ground, from in the
air, and even from space! In some places on Earth, water is
frozen during the cold winter months. In other places, water is
frozen all year long! The scientists hope to better understand
the areas on Earth where there is frozen water. Keeping track of
the amount of snow can help scientists figure out how much water
cities and towns will have i