Tropical Storm Danny Stars In GOES Satellite Movie

NASA's GOES Project has been busy with animating satellite imagery of Tropical Storm Danny, and has created a movie of him from August 25-27.

The short movie includes still imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) called GOES-12, monitors weather conditions over the U.S. east coast. NASA's GOES Project, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. creates imagery and animations from GOES-12 data, and created the movie.

The movie begins with an image on August 25 when Danny was just a low pressure area, east of the Bahamas and not yet named. The movie continues through Danny's formation and classification as a tropical storm during the morning of August 26, to the beginning of its journey up the U.S. East Coast August 27 at 2:25 p.m. EDT.

Danny's maximum sustained winds at 11 a.m. EDT, August 27 were near 60 mph, and slow strengthening is expected. He was located near 27.5 north and 73.1 west, or 550 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Danny is moving northwest near 13 mph, and is expected to turn north. Danny had a minimum central pressure near 1006 millibars.








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Labs Search for Unexploded Ordnance

It’s a local twist to a nationwide problem: Potential unexploded ordnance (UXO) at old bombing ranges.

Several intact 250-pound bombs recently discovered during a construction project at the old Kirtland bombing range near Double Eagle Airport on Albuquerque’s west mesa have since been safely removed from the area.

A complete site survey was conducted by a team from Sandia National Laboratories and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The excavation was part of an expansion of the Eclipse Aviation facility near Double Eagle Airport for installation of water and power lines. The survey of the Kirtland site, one of the national Wide Area Assessment (WAA) sites, was initiated and funded by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP).

The survey showed no evidence of any target areas south of the runways.

“This southern portion of the site completely encompasses the area in which Eclipse Aviation is expanding, so good news for them,” says Sean McKenna, Sandia project team leader. “We did identify several other potential target areas north of the airport; some of these turned out to be geological noise such as magnetic rocks. About three of them turned out to be legitimate potential ordnance target areas.”

The team used LiDAR (light detection and ranging) imagery to remotely characterize the Kirtland site and the imagery revealed several features indicative of UXO targets. The LiDAR provided a high-resolution topographic map of the area and focused on old targets such as concentric circles, a ship outline, and other areas of interest, McKenna says.

Overall, as much as 20 million acres of land in the United States —that’s about half the size of Maine— could possibly contain UXO. The unexploded ordnance is left over from wars as well as from decades of live-fire training and practice in the United States.

“UXO presents a discrete and acute health hazard, but not the same as the land-mine problem,” says Barry Roberts, a member of the team. The Kirtland site was used for training during and after WWII.

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