Portraits of Earth: Investigating Hurricanes
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In a NASA DC-8, researchers fly into the heart of a hurricane to probe the dynamics of a storm from the inside out.
Special Thanks: NASA’s Earth Observing System, Dr. Jeffrey Halverson, Dr. Michael Starobin
Produced by: Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with the NASA Earth Observatory (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/).
All images and animations courtesy of NASA and the Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Except:
- Photos of damage in Louisiana from Hurricane Catrina courtesy of Andrea Booher and Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA
- Photos of hurricane damage in Florida courtesy of The Weather Channel
- Photo of damage in Virginia from Hurricane Isabel courtesy of Andrea Booher/FEMA
- Hurricane Bonnie image courtesy of the SeaWiFS Project/NASA/GSFC and ORBIMAGE
- Written by Vanessa Thomas (STScI) and Michael Starobin (NASA)
- Designed by John Godfrey
- Music courtesy of Associated Production Music
All narration is presented in text form within the video. In addition, a full transcript will be available in the Library in the near future. Check back soon!