NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space Station

Artist's rendering of NASA's ISS-RapidScat instrument (inset), which will launch to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring. It will be installed on the end of the station's Columbus laboratory.

Illustration credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JSC

Note: For more information, see NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space Station; also, QuikScat's Eye on Ocean Winds Lives On with RapidScat and NASA's RapidScat to Unveil Hidden Cycles of Sea Winds.