NASA's HS3 Hurricane Mission Ends for 2012

Global Hawk taking off
11.30.12

NASA's 2012 HS3 mission came to an end Nov. 6 when an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flew a final data-collection mission in the North Pacific Ocean.

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HS3 Mission Thoroughly Investigates Long-Lived ...

Visible continents and an infrared Atlantic map frame the path of Nadine, staggering like a drunken monkey, overlapping the disciplined flight paths of the global hawk drone
10.05.12

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel scientists had a fascinating tropical cyclone to study in long-lived Hurricane Nadine, making 5 flights over the storm.

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Cutting-Edge Technology Makes NASA's Hurricane Mission ...

rack of instrumentation and wires on a lab workbench
09.25.12

Scientists are currently flying state-of-the-art, autonomously operated instruments to gather difficult-to-obtain measurements of wind speeds, precipitation, and cloud structures in and around ...

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NASA Ames Plays Key Role in the HS3 Global Hawk Mission

Globalhawk in sky
09.18.12

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) investigation is a five-year mission targeted to enhance our understanding of the processes that underlie hurricane intensity change in the Atlantic ...

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HS3 Images on Flickr

  • people inside a NASA DC-8 airplane

    As it Happens: GRIP Photos  →

    Ride along with scientists, with the help of Flickr, as they explore tropical cyclones. This gallery shows photographs snapped during NASA's GRIP mission.

  • GRIP Hurricane Mission

    NASA's Global Hawk Takes on Hurricanes

    NASA's unmanned Global Hawk aircraft joins the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes, or GRIP, mission to study hurricanes.

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