Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:10:33
• Published: 2020-03-17 11:12

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.