Altius drone mannequin with at NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center in Florida
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A rising fleet of seafaring and aerial drones stand able to make the leap into the guts of among the strongest storms on Earth throughout this yr’s Atlantic hurricane season. The up-close measurements they make will assist ship extra correct hurricane warnings.
“We’re intentionally sailing an object into one of the most inhospitable and dangerous environments on Earth – the middle of a major Atlantic hurricane,” says Matt Womble at Saildrone, a US firm that has designed …
Source: www.newscientist.com