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.

Credits


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

Transcript


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!