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- NASA launched two small satellites designed to track tropical cyclones in real-time from a base in New Zealand.
- The project, called the TROPICS mission, has the potential to improve weather predictions on devastating storms.
- TROPICS is an acronym for Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats.
- It will provide information on rainfall, temperature, and humidity, to see storms evolve on an hourly basis.
- The new storm trackers can fly over hurricanes every hour.
- The current satellites flies over hurricanes every six hours.
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