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Rapid Response for a New Wind Instrument

Barely two weeks after its launch and two days after its installation, the ISS-Rapid Scatterometer observed the wind field around a tropical storm.


Image by NASA-JPL/Caltech. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, based on reporting from Alan Buis and Whitney Clavin.

Published October 8, 2014
Data acquired October 3, 2014

Sources:
ISS > RapidScat
Terra > MODIS