A bird's-eye view of a Martian storm 🌪
The Mars Express spacecraft captured a massive dust storm descending the slopes of the volcano Pavonis Mons. The Martian moon Phobos also appears in the frame, strikingly complementing the cosmic landscape.
NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters just recorded a surface wind gust of ~190 MPH inside the eyewall of Hurricane Polo, while a deployed drone flying at 500 meters above sea-level measured winds exceeding 230 MPH.
We are watching one of the all-time most extreme Western Hemisphere storms on record unfold before our eyes tonight.
Hurricane Polo has SHATTERED the record for the longest duration of CAT 5 winds ever documented in a Pacific Hurricane, and it’s not even close.
His core sustained winds have now been at 158+ MPH for a combined 50 HOURS in total. The previous record was 42 hours, and only 4 other storms in the Atlantic Basin have maintained Category 5 status for longer.
RFE/RL takes apart a Russian Geran-4 drone to uncover what makes the jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) faster, harder to intercept, and capable of operating deep inside Ukraine -- from its turbojet engine and advanced camera to foreign-made communications and navigation components. @cxemu@radiosvoboda