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February 15, 2026 | Latest Issue
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Thayer engineers participate in NASA snow satellite project

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Three Thayer School of Engineering members, professors Zoe Courville Th’08 and Christopher Polashenski ’07 Th’11 and engineering postdoctoral student Nicholas Wright have been collecting data for SnowEx, a NASA project that is undertaking the preliminary stages of developing a satellite that measures the depth and water content of snow. According to Courville, current remote snow measurement technology is able to measure the two-dimensional extent of a snowpack but not its depth.








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Editor's Note

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 Everyone should have a favorite word. May’s favorite word is “saudade.” “Saudade” is a Portuguese and Galician word that makes its home primarily in the dark depths of May’s Spotify romance playlist.