{"id":364809,"date":"2017-08-25T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5e6155199fcfd29102a8eb2b0c9cb080"},"modified":"2017-08-25T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:42:00","slug":"hurricane-harvey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=364809","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite saw the temperature at the top of Hurricane Harvey on 25 August 2017 at 04:06 GMT as the storm approached the US state of Texas.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe brightness temperature of the clouds at the top of the storm, some 12\u201315 km above the ocean, range from about \u201380\u00b0C near the eye of the storm to about 20\u00b0C at the edges.\n<\/p>\n

\nHurricanes are one of the forces of nature that can be tracked only by satellites, providing up-to-date imagery so that authorities know when to take precautionary measures. Satellites deliver information on a storm\u2019s extent, wind speed and path, and on key features such as cloud thickness, temperature, and water and ice content.\n<\/p>\n

\nSentinel-3\u2019s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer measures energy radiating from Earth\u2019s surface in nine spectral bands and two viewing angles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite saw the temperature at the top of Hurricane Harvey on 25 August 2017 at 04:06 GMT as the storm approached the US state of Texas.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe brightness temperature of the clouds at the top of the storm, some 12–15 km above the ocean, range from about –80°C near the eye of the storm to about 20°C at the edges.\n<\/p>\n

\nHurricanes are one of the forces of nature that can be tracked only by satellites, providing up-to-date imagery so that authorities know when to take precautionary measures. Satellites deliver information on a storm’s extent, wind speed and path, and on key features such as cloud thickness, temperature, and water and ice content.\n<\/p>\n

\nSentinel-3’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer measures energy radiating from Earth’s surface in nine spectral bands and two viewing angles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364810,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364809\/revisions\/364810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}