- A stunning new visualization made by NASA Goddard shows how smoke, sea salt, and dust moved through the atmosphere during the 2017 hurricane season.
- The supercomputer-created simulation shows how atmospheric particles interact with storms and other weather systems.
- It's a mesmerizing new picture of how the atmosphere works.
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A stunning NASA visualization shows a timelapse of this year's 'extremely active' hurricane season
A stunning new visualization made by NASA Goddard shows how smoke, sea salt, and dust moved through the atmosphere during the 2017 hurricane season.
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The 2017 hurricane season was extremely active, with devastating storms like Harvey, Irma, and Maria that plowed through the Caribbean and Gulf Coast.
But these storms didn't just bring water and wind. They churned up huge quantities of sea salt, blew smoke from wildfires around the globe, and pulled in dust from the Sahara, which was washed into the oceans with the rain.
NASA satellites were tracking those tiny salt, smoke, and dust particles as they blew around the world throughout the hurricane season.
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Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center were able to use supercomputers to turn that data into a stunning visualization that shows how winds moved particles through Earth's atmosphere.
The bright blue salt whipped up by powerful cyclones is quite the sight. Also, watch how the smoke from wildfires in the Western US and Canada flies all the way across the Atlantic:
2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation
Getting a better understanding of how all these particles interact on a global scale will help us better understand how they affect weather.
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