Altius drone mannequin with at NOAA’s Plane Operations Middle 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 deliberately crusing an object into one of the inhospitable and harmful environments on Earth – the center of a serious Atlantic hurricane,” says Matt Womble at Saildrone, a US firm that has designed …