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NASA uses dust, salt, and smoke to visualize the 2017 hurricane season
From https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/11/17/16665966/nasa-visualization-aerosols-hurricanes
Watch: NASA uses dust, salt, and smoke to visualize the 2017 hurricane season
The storms churn sea salt up into the air, which NASA can see from space.
Updated by Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Nov 17, 2017, 10:50am EST
Hurricanes can be hundreds of miles across, with winds whipping fast enough to rival tornadoes. They can sweep across thousands of miles of ocean before winding down.
All this commotion churns up the ocean water, which then injects sea salt into the air in and around the storm.
NASA’s satellites can detect the amount of salt particles in the atmosphere, and then track those particles across the path of the storm. These observations can be factored into a mathematical model to visualize the storms. Here’s the result.
This video is a computer-generated time lapse of the 2017 hurricane season up until November 1, as informed by NASA’s observations of salt and other aerosols, including dust and smoke. It’s beautiful, and a bit terrifying.
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The storms churn sea salt up into the air, which NASA can see from space.
Updated by Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Nov 17, 2017, 10:50am EST
Hurricanes can be hundreds of miles across, with winds whipping fast enough to rival tornadoes. They can sweep across thousands of miles of ocean before winding down.
All this commotion churns up the ocean water, which then injects sea salt into the air in and around the storm.
NASA’s satellites can detect the amount of salt particles in the atmosphere, and then track those particles across the path of the storm. These observations can be factored into a mathematical model to visualize the storms. Here’s the result.
This video is a computer-generated time lapse of the 2017 hurricane season up until November 1, as informed by NASA’s observations of salt and other aerosols, including dust and smoke. It’s beautiful, and a bit terrifying.
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