SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTGS) — On Tuesday, NASA sent a high-flying plane with a 150 ft wingspan to measure snowstorm activity to the Hunter Army Airfield. NASA's ER-2 arrives at 5 p.m. It will measure the distribution of raindrops, snowflakes, and ice particles vertically in the cloud, as well as how they move. “All this information is important and complementary,” said IMPACTS’ deputy principal investigator John Yorks of NASA Goddard.

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – NASA scientists are about to embark on a new journey, flying a plane right into the center of a storm to better understand snowfall on the East Coast. “NASA has not done, actually scientists have not done, experiments looking at the details of those storms for 30 years,” says Gail Skofronick-Jackson, a program scientists for NASA’s IMPACTS Mission.