TRMM and GPM satellites analyze Hurricane Vance before landfall

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 14:31 in Astronomy & Space

Hurricane Vance was a hurricane on Nov. 4 when the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite and the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission satellite passed overhead and measured its rainfall from space. TRMM and GPM revealed areas of heavy rain within the storm before it weakened to a depression and made landfall on Nov. 5.

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