The large gray fairing on the belly of a NASA Global Hawk covered the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler, or HIWRAP, developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
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The large gray fairing on the belly of a NASA Global Hawk covered the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler, or HIWRAP, developed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The specialized radar instrument measured hurricane wind structure during NASA’s Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) mission.August 10, 2010
NASA Photo/ Tony Landis