Questions tagged [weather]
Questions regarding effects of weather on space exploration and how it can be forecasted and managed on Earth and on other bodies with atmospheres.
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What did NASA Vehicle Assembly Building's "weather" look like? Did it really have clouds? Did it rain?
Comments below this answer to Would there be snow, rain, fog or clouds in a deep, sealed, subsurface cavern on the Moon if water were present? point out that the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building ...
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What routinely happened in the TIROS control center? Was anything controlled there?
Question: What actually happened in the TIROS control center at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland? Did they receive and print out satellite images in this room? If so, how? Did they ...
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Would the national flag planted by astronauts on Mars need an upper horizontal pole like the ones on the Moon?
Due to the lack of an atmosphere on the Moon, the Apollo lunar flags had an upper horizontal pole in order to make them fully hoisted, looking like floating in the wind. Now Mars does have an ...
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Why doesn't the USA use structurally stronger rockets for the more important launches?
Russia uses the R-7 ICBM-derived Soyuz launch vehicle for most of its space launches. The advantage of it is that there's no concern on what the weather is like on launch day and Soyuz launches almost ...
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How were video tape recorders adapted to work in orbit in 1962?
Livescience's Satellite spies gigantic 'fuzzball' clouds spreading near Australia coast says:
Actinoform clouds were first captured by NASA’s Television Infrared Observation Satellite V in 1962, but ...
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Where is http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/?
In the question Methods of lightning detection on Mars? I included an image of
A lightning detector at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida:
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The Wikimedia's page cites http://thunder....
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Did any of the Space Shuttles land through rain or rainclouds?
My web research resulted in figuring out that launching Space Shuttles in rain, apart from lightning, wind and turbulence related problems, wasn't permitted due to:
brittleness of the heat shield ...
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Why does the U.S. military maintain their own weather satellites?
Why does the U.S. military maintain their own weather satellites like the DMSP Block 5D2?
What's the difference to "normal" weather satellites? Do they use other sensors or orbits?
If they have ...
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How often has weather interfered with the Deep Space Network?
This answer provides some information about the potential that precipitation can interfere with signals of the Deep Space Network. In practice, how often (a count, ratio or percent) has weather ...
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Fast spinning solar cells to clear Martian dust possible?
I've seen a fast spinning glass wheel used in front of a camera to clear away water, dust or ice.
Could Solar panels be made circular and spin to clear dust off of them in the same way may?
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Does Mars have a known "prevailing wind" direction?
Venus has a general retrograde wind direction, and a few days of measurements from the InSight lander so far suggest steady winds from the north-west, but are there any measurements that indicate Mars ...
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How does InSight measure wind speed?
According to this answer to How can I find a daily record of the temperature on Mars? the weather at the InSight lander can now be seen online at https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/ This includes ...
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What are "high altitude winds" and why do they often delay rocket launches?
High altitude winds seem to frequently postpone launches from Earth to orbit. Presumably, they are fast and strong enough to induce stresses on a rocket or impede guidance, but that's guessing from ...
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How soon will LC-39A be at significant risk to storm-surge damage?
from Format/interpretation of NOAA Elevation Data
Rising sea levels due to thermal expansion due to global warming due to farting cattle and unicorns and of course also due to CO2 emissions caused by ...
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Which Live satellites can the public view of earth? [closed]
Does anybody know if there is a LIVE satellite? Like a cross between Google Earth (zoom) and GOES 16 (LIVE)? So WE can see what's really going on around here?
I want to see inside of the crater in ...
