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Hail rarely kills, but it hammers roofs, cars and crops to the tune of $10 billion a year in damage in the U.S. Hail damage is so costly that the insurance industry is helping to pay for the mission.
Scientists in two hail-dimpled vehicles with special mesh protecting the windshields are driving straight into the heart of the storms.
Project ICECHIP has already collected and dissected hail the size of small cantaloupes and ice balls.
Hail is the No. 1 reason for soaring costs in billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States , a meteorologist says.
The experiment is unique because of the combination of driving into the hail and deploying numerous radars and weather balloons to get an overall picture of how the storms work.
Scientists say the research mission looks promising because there are a lot of unanswered questions about hail.
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