The full, historic passage of Hurricane Lala through Hawaii.
When her eyewall clipped the Big Island, she became the first Hurricane impact there in 155 YEARS, dropping a max rain total of 3.6 FEET and producing gusts up to 154 MPH at the summit of Mauna Kea (where cyclonic SNOW was observed at an elevation of nearly 14,000 ft).
@RobMayeda https://t.co/AzklVYqEM7 very interesting video I found a few years ago relatable today as tsunamis have a very hard time squeezing through he golden gate!
The team made contact with 10 of the satellites and attempted to have them raise orbit using their ion thrusters, but they are in an enormously high-drag environment with their perigee, or lowest point of their elliptical orbit, only 135 km above the Earth