Blog Post Image: Watching Earth’s Winds, On a Shoestring

Artist’s rendering of NASA’s ISS-RapidScat instrument (inset), which will launch to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring. It will be installed on the end of the station’s Columbus laboratory. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Johnson Space Center.