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this morning we're talking with andre

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dress uh nasa goes deputy project

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manager good morning andre good morning

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so the ghost satellites are an

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invaluable tool in tracking hurricanes

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and severe storms can you tell us more

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about this mission and the new goes

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satellite you just recently launched

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sure these are the the nation's

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satellites and uh the goes mission is

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really a joint effort between nasa no

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and its contractors to

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to build launch and put these satellites

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into operation

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uh what you're seeing here was the

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launch of the ghost 14 satellite

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noaa likes to employ two satellites to

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cover the western hemisphere

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they orbit at the earth at about 22 000

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miles above the earth's surface

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and they provide continuous products um

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one right after another and those those

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images are used to string together to

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provide a movie video

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uh we did launch the ghost 14 satellite

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as i just said and we're very excited

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about that one it's our best satellite

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yet and we're anxious to put it into

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operation

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so we've just passed the peak of this

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year's hurricane season what has goes

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been able to show us so far and are

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there any new storms to keep our eyes on

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well um nasa and noaa have been

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predicting i'll say a

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average to really below average

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hurricane season this year and that's

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really what we're seeing right now

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in the pacific region is a little more

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active in the atlantic region we did

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have one nice sizable hurricane

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which was uh hurricane bill which are

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these images are and you're really

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seeing the uh the power of the ghost

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spacecraft and actually in combination

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with other spacecrafts to uh take a good

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look into the insides of these storms

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and the makeup and to really see how

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they form and and

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these satellites really have the ability

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to track these hurricanes and and

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predict where they will hit landfall

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so these satellites uh bring us

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incredible pictures every single day why

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is it so important to have these daily

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images well if you think about it the

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the go satellite is is orbiting about 22

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000 miles above the surface and that's

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what we call a geosynchronous orbit

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um from that perspective we really have

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the ability to take the same images over

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the earth

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it's like staring standing there and

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staring straight at the earth and seeing

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the same spot on the earth all the time

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so we can really take those images

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string them together

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and really have the ability to track

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storms

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the images you just saw there were you

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know movie loops of from taking image

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after image frame after frame

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continuous and these images are provided

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to the american public in real time

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most of the american public really

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doesn't know but they see these images

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every day when they actually go home

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turn on the tv

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and watch the weather forecast they're

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coming from the ghost satellite

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so the ghost satellites have been in use

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since 1975. what do you still hope to

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learn with the new satellite you just

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launched uh well you know in the past 30

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plus years we really have made great

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strides leaps and bounds if you take a

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look at this image right here

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you'll see the image bouncing around a

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little bit that's primarily from this

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the spacecraft moving those images were

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from the

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late 60s contrast that with what we're

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seeing today with these satellites

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we have the ability to take frame after

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frame and what you're seeing here is not

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just seconds worth of data but

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hours days weeks months all put together

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to string to really make a nice picture

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here of what the earth is really showing

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us

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it's really a beautiful image really it

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kind of shows how alive the earth is

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so where can we go to learn more about

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hurricanes and the goes mission well

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it's all really at your fingertips on

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the internet uh the best place to go is

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uh to your favorite search engine and

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and search how it goes but you can go

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right to these websites

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www.hurricanes.gov

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or www.nasa.gov