it is the international mission from nasa and japan and the over paths you are seeing is from septemberfiveeing is from september five when hurricane irma was a category five storm in the atlantic. we can see the storm in three dimensions, the really intense rain in the eye wall, and that tells us a lot about the hurricane heat engine, how the storm is intensifying, and right now it gives us clues the storm might impact land, both in terms of rain, winds, and ultimately coastal flooding and indolent flooding from this tremendous storm. what in particular will you be looking at, then, with regards to hurricane irma, but also hurricanejose, which follows up behind? that's right, being able to look at this from the vantage point of space, using both international and domestic satellite and airborne capabilities allows us to understand the structure of these storms in a way that is very important for groups like the national hurricane centre to improve their forecast. so we are looking not only at the storm structure but we are getting imagery both before and after the storm passes to get a sen