More rapidly intensifying storms call for new tools.
Image: European Space Agency via NASA
At the moment, NASA’s weather satellites can only check in on a storm every four to six hours. “So we’re missing a lot of what’s happening in the storm,” Bill Blackwell, principal investigator for the TROPICS mission and a researcher at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, said in NASA’sImages taken from current weather satellites. Both the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder instrument on the NOAA-20 satellite and TROPICS Pathfinder passed over Typhoon Mindulle on September 26, 2021.
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