HIRAD set to fly on Global Hawk mission
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 09:31
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org)—NASA has begun its latest airborne hurricane study called the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission. For the first time, NASA will be flying two unmanned Global Hawks, unmanned aerial vehicles, from the U.S. East Coast to understand the processes which underlie hurricane formation and intensity change.