Tag: Hurricane
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Video: Preview briefing on NASA’s CYGNSS mission to improve hurricane forecasting
Learn about the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System — NASA’s fleet of hurricane-tracking satellites — launching together on Dec. 12 from Cape Canaveral aboard a Pegasus rocket. The eight small satellites comprising the CYGNSS constellation will help improve hurricane intensity, track and storm surge forecasts. This NASA news conference held Nov. 10 details the CYGNSS…
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Dramatic views of Hurricane Matthew taken Monday from the space station
The International Space Station flew over Matthew on Monday, the dangerous Category 4 hurricane packing 140 mph winds. Cameras outside the station captured dramatic views of the storm and its powerful eye while passing 250 miles overhead at 4:15 p.m. EDT (2015 GMT). Matthew is forecast to impact western Haiti and eastern Cuba on Tuesday…
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Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia viewed from orbit
The VIIRS instrument on the joint NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP weather satellite in polar orbit captured this infrared view of the eye of Hurricane Patricia at 0920 GMT (5:20 a.m. EDT) Friday when the storm had maximum sustained winds of 200 mph. Credit: UW/CIMSS/William Straka III Astronauts on the International Space Station and a fleet of…