Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center fly planes into winter storm

As Marylanders buckle down for the winter storm this weekend, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. are sending planes directly into the storm.The team of storm-chasing scientists is flying two NASA planes equipped with scientific instruments to investigate how winter storms form and develop.One plane will fly above the storm and the other will fly within the clouds.

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