HS3 Stories

NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel, or HS3, mission investigated tropical cyclones in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Atlantic Basin hurricane seasons. Highlights of the mission can be seen in a new video. The six minute and 51 second video…

Looking out the window of a commercial plane during takeoff is like taking the nickel tour of the profile of the atmosphere. As the plane ascends, what may start as a gloomy day on the ground, can turn into rain…

NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel or HS3 mission is taking flight, and Principal Investigator Scott Braun answered some behind-the-scenes questions about the 2014 mission. This is the final year of the HS3 mission which uses NASA instrumented, remotely piloted…

A new animation from NASA paints the colors of the wind in a tropical low pressure area that was investigated during NASA’s 2013 Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel or HS3 mission. The visualization shows wind streams from a tropical depression…

Ramesh Kakar, the Weather Focus Area leader for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, makes opening remarks at NASA’s airborne Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission science and deployment preparation meeting at NASA’s Ames Research Center…

One of the instruments that flew aboard one of two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft during NASA’s HS3 mission was the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer known as HIRAD. HIRAD identified  an area of heavy rains and and likely strong winds in Hurricane…

NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over a developing low pressure area in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and captured infrared data on what is now the latest destination for NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel mission. On Sept. 19, NASA’s HS3…