{"id":38957,"date":"2011-09-04T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hurricane-irene-from-start-to-finish-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:44:16","slug":"hurricane-irene-from-start-to-finish-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hurricane-irene-from-start-to-finish-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irene from start to finish | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA just released an amazing video showing Hurricane Irene from August 21th through the 29th &mdash; essentially the entire lifespan of the storm:<\/p><p>Unfortunately the resolution isn&rsquo;t great, but this really gives a sense of the incredible size and momentum of this incredible storm. The animation was created using images from the NASA\/NOAA satellite GOES-13, an Earth-observer in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geostationary_orbit\">geostationary orbit<\/a> 36,000 km (22,000 miles) above the Atlantic Ocean. It takes images of clouds, which were combined with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/modis.gsfc.nasa.gov\/about\/\">MODIS images<\/a> of the land to get this realistic-looking view. <\/p><p><em>Credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/videogallery\/index.html?collection_id=14483&amp;media_id=108951491&amp;module=homepage\">NASA\/NOAA GOES Project<\/a><\/em><\/p><p><em><\/em><\/p><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/27\/landfall\/\">Landfall<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/26\/irene-sidles-up-to-the-east-coast\/\">Irene sidles up to the east coast<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/25\/putting-the-eye-in-irene\/\">Putting the eye in Irene<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/24\/come-on-irene\/\">Come on, Irene<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mahZu4aCcDPpwtMdaZX4faZIEx4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/43a02_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mahZu4aCcDPpwtMdaZX4faZIEx4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/43a02_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/43a02_XAi0Ka56kIA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/43a02_7YiG9xKjD7U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA just released an amazing video showing Hurricane Irene from August 21th through the 29th &mdash; essentially the entire lifespan of the storm:Unfortunately the resolution isn&rsquo;t great, but this really gives a sense of the incredible size and momentum of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hurricane-irene-from-start-to-finish-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}