NASA's CloudSat satellite sees a powerful heat engine in Typhoon Malakas
Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 07:42
in Astronomy & Space
Towering thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are two things that NASA's CloudSat satellite saw as it passed over Typhoon Malakas, and those two factors confirm a strong storm. NASA's CloudSat satellite's Cloud Profiling Radar can basically slice a tropical cyclone in half and take a look at its clouds and rainfall, and that's what it did when it passed over Typhoon Malakas on Sept. 23...