NASA Satellite Captures 3-D View of Hurricane Matthew

NASA’s Precipitation Measurement Missions' GPM core satellite captured Hurricane Matthew in 3-D as it made landfall on Haiti and as it traveled up to the Florida coast.

The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission or GPM flew directly over the storm several times between October 2 - October 6, 2016. The view on October 6 reveals massive amounts of rainfall being produced by the storm as it approaches Florida.

The GPM core satellite carries two instruments that show the location and intensity of rain and snow, which defines a crucial part of the storm structure – and how it will behave. The GPM Microwave Imager sees through the tops of clouds to observe how much and where precipitation occurs, and the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar observes precise details of precipitation in 3-dimensions.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng

Music: Diamond Skies by Andrew Skeet [PRS], Anthony Phillips [PRS] from the KillerTracks catalog

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