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Stephanie Pappas

'Gravity waves' from Hurricane Helene seen rippling through the sky in new NASA images

Satellite map of a hurricane sending ripples through the atmosphere over the southeast United States.

Atmospheric ripples from Hurricane Helene spread far north of Florida as the devastating storm made landfall, new NASA images show.

The agency's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) captured concentric bands of atmospheric gravity waves stretching across the Southeast as the hurricane progressed miles away.

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