Global Hawk drone aircraft flies over Frank on the GRIP hurricane mission
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 17:07
in Earth & Climate
NASA's 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm Frank in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first ever high-altitude flyover of a tropical cyclone with a UAS (unmanned aircraft system).