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The Famous Mars Image That Never Was
Back in the 1990s, there was a veritable flood of new information about the secretive Soviet space program including details of their early failed planetary probes whose missions turned out to be far...
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RAMOS: The Russian-American Observation Satellites
I find it hard to believe, but ten years ago today I was finishing preparations for my last of what seemed to have been countless business trips I had made while I was involved in the RAMOS...
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ISS Tropical Cyclone Experiment
In addition to Drew Ex Machina and writing articles for various print and on-line outlets on space-related topics, I also work as a physicist specializing in the processing and analysis of remote...
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As regular readers of Drew Ex Machina are probably aware, in addition to being a writer, I am also a physicist specializing in the processing and analysis of remote sensing data from satellites and...
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New Tropical Cyclone Observations from ISS
As regular readers of Drew Ex Machina are probably aware, in addition to being a writer, I am also a physicist specializing in the processing and analysis of remote sensing data from satellites and...
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GOES Video of Solar Eclipse
With possibly millions of people in the US looking skyward on August 21, 2017 at the total eclipse of the Sun, a number of satellites caught views of the Moon’s shadow as they performed their routine...
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Recent Stereo Views of Harvey & Irma from the ISS
It has been quite a while since I have shared an update here on my ongoing project to photograph tropical cyclones from the International Space Station (ISS). Called CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity...
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The Famous Mars Image That Never Was
Back in the 1990s, there was a veritable flood of new information about the once secretive Soviet space program including details of their early failed planetary probes whose missions turned out to be...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: Tropical Cyclone Gita
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as hurricanes, to support the...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: Tropical Cyclone Marcus
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as hurricanes, to support the development of...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: Super Typhoon Atsani in 3D
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as hurricanes, to support the...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: Alberto by Moonlight from the ISS
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as hurricanes, to support the...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: Super Typhoon Nepartak
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as hurricanes, to support the...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: ISS View of a Powerful Pacific Lightning Strike
The goal of the ongoing CyMISS (tropical Cyclone intensity Measurements from the ISS) project is to acquire image sequences of intense tropical cyclones (TCs), such as hurricanes, to support the...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: A 3D View of Typhoon Soulik from the ISS
This season is proving to be a fairly busy one for hurricanes and typhoons in the northern hemisphere. September’s Image of the Month is of Typhoon Soulik created using images from a sequence of 240...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: Sunrise over Hurricane Florence
This season continues to be a busy one for hurricanes and typhoons in the northern hemisphere. And with all this activity, there have been lots of opportunities to observe these powerful storms from...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: A 3D View of Hurricane Matthew from the ISS
During the last four years of the CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone Intensity Measurements from the ISS) program, our team has acquired image sequences of several dozen powerful hurricanes, typhoons and...
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Clouds Over Mt. Whitney – A 23-Year Tale of 3D Remote Sensing
We have all had the experience of when we are looking for something, we sometimes do not find it. But as soon as we stop looking, we do find it – frequently when it is no longer needed. As a...
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CyMISS Image of the Month: A 3D View of Hurricane Irma from the ISS
During the last four years of the CyMISS (Tropical Cyclone Intensity Measurements from the ISS) program, our team has acquired image sequences of several dozen powerful hurricanes, typhoons and...
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Top Ten Posts of 2018
Now that we are at the end of 2018, I figured it was time to look back once again at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see which of the 32 new essays I posted during this site’s...
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