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	NASA has launched every weather satellite. After launch, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) are then managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). GOES satellites monitor storm development and track their movements and provide imagery that television weather forecasters use for all kinds of storms including extreme storms like hurricanes.

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	Caring for people continues to be the focus of NASA’s Stennis Space Center (SSC) in response to Hurricane Katrina, more than three weeks after the storm devastated the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast. There was no significant damage to any of the stands where SSC has tested and proven flight-worthy all Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) since 1975. SSC is open and operating at a modified level of business. “Our top priority is helping our employees and their families and helping facilitate the massive relief effort being staged by Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Defense, and other agencies from Stennis Space Center,” said SSC Center Director Bill Parsons, who is leading NASA’s hurricane recovery efforts. + Read Full Press Release Space Station Photos Show Katrina's Impact Image above: NASA's Michoud Test Facility in New Orleans is located at right center of this image taken from the International Space Station on September 8. While the facility itself is largely dry, the adjacent neighborhoods are extensively flooded. Photo credit: NASA. Image above: This September 8 image from Station showsflooded areas (dark greenish brown) to the west and southwest of the famous French Quarter (top center). Damage to the roof of the Superdome is visible to the left of center. Photo credit: NASA. + View More ISS Images Photo Galleries: + Stennis Damage \| + Michoud Damage + All Katrina Images \| + Video: Katrina's Path Additional Links: + Administrator Griffin Updates Employees (80 Kb PDF) + Media Teleconference on Katrina's Impact (111 Kb PDF) + Impact on Space Shuttle Work + NASA and Hurricane Rita + Hurricane Resource Page




		Satellite Sees Chlorophyll Stirred up by Hurricane Katrina Wind and wave action from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 stirred up sediments and chlorophyll off the Florida coast. + Read More

		Hurricane Cloud Tops Give Windy Clues NASA finding that cloud tops provide clues about the behavior of winds below a hurricane on the Earth's surface. + Read More

		NASA Hurricane Specialist Joanne Simpson Honored by American Academy of Arts and Sciences Dr. Joanne Simpson became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 24. + Read More




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