This image from NASA's Real Time Mission Monitor showed the flight track of NASA's Global Hawk over the Pacific Ocean during the first part of the final Atmospheric Rivers Mission flight March 9, 2011.
Mission: Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers (WISPAR)
This image from NASA’s Real Time Mission Monitor showed the flight track of NASA’s Global Hawk over the Pacific Ocean during the first part of the final Atmospheric Rivers Mission flight March 9, 2011. The long “spaghetti” line is from JPL’s High-Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Sounding Radiometer (HAMSR) instrument.