PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- NASA says an airborne mission helped water managers for 2.6 million Californians achieve near-perfect water operations this summer.
Despite the driest year in California's recorded history, high-resolution snow maps of the Tuolumne River Basin in the Sierra Nevada provided by the prototype Airborne Snow Observatory mission helped optimize reservoir filling and hydroelectric generation at a reservoir and dam that serves the San Francisco Bay Area, the space agency reported Monday.