NASA | Hurricane Scientist talks GRIP, Hurricane Earl

NASA's Hurricane expert Dr. Jeff Halverson explains how NASA's GRIP mission is keeping a close eye on Hurricane Earl and other storms over the Atlantic. Scientists use data collected from NASA's DC-8, Global Hawk and WB-57 aircraft to study the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Process that hurricanes undergo as they become major storms.




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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• Goddard
• Hurricanes
• GRIP
• Earth
• weather
• Earl
• space
• global hawk
• Jeff Halverson
• Rob Gutro
• Michelle Williams

[DaR3b3L]

why is the drone flying from california? wouldnt it be easier to fly from florida? and fort lauderdale is in florida, this "hurricane expert" needs to study geography.

[NASAexplorer]

@DaR3b3L Currently the facilities for the Global Hawk only exist at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. It's a brand new technology so their goal is to build the infrastructure to fly them out of Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops, Virginia, but unfortunately this type of technology can't just take off and land from anywhere they want. The other planes, the DC-8 and WB-57 are flying out of Ft. Lauderdale in Florida.

[2canines]

i dont know why but the guy to the right reminds me of the guy from theatheistexperience

[twgirl1]

twgirl

[XMrZombiemanX]

Out of all the info you guys could relay this is the best you could do. Not that I don't appreciate the LITTLE info we get from NASA but I can't help to think nasa spends more money on Disinformation than true information

[73mandala]

@1ownjoo2 Yes but that was 500 yrs ago, i'm talking about torture in this day and age. Anyway we probably shouldn't be talking about this type of thing here, i originally made the comment that i wish we'd spent alot of the war expenditure on scientific space exploration, i wasn't meaning for an in depth debate on these clips, it may be a bit depressing for some

[1ownjoo2]

@73mandala

Waterboarding meh.. Look up Medeival torture, waterboarding is nothing compared to that.. However im talking prisons in general... Much more civil

[javonoUTube]

@73mandala ARPA are involved in Aerial Autonomous Technology that created the 'Global Hawk', DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency). Because of the Cold War with Russia, agencies like DARPA where tasked with creating networks that would survive a nuclear war. Funding for War technologies brought about the Internet. DARPA is still creating Autonomous Technology that can survive after War, this is War funding, WAR & CREATION, PEACE & STAGNATION.

[73mandala]

@1ownjoo2 TV and hot meals you reckon, what about waterboarding and all the other toture they're doing?

[73mandala]

@StereoSpace Yes and others like catholics/protestants blowing each other up or the Japanese bloke who did the sarin gas attack