The following news article is adapted from a press release issued by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory, in partnership with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. LIGO is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by MIT and Caltech, which conceived and built the project.

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NASA’s Aqua satellite and Global Precipitation Measurement mission, or GPM, satellites have been peering into what appears to be a somewhat lop-sided Hurricane Maria. The storm appears asymmetric because vertical wind shear is pushing clouds and showers to the eastern side of the storm.

On Sept. 27, NHC forecaster Daniel Brown noted, “Deep convection and banding has increased over the eastern and northeastern portion of the large circulation of Maria since yesterday.”

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De hecho, la ascensión de los vikingos no fue un acontecimiento repentino, sino que formó parte de un largo continuo de desarrollo humano en el norte de Escandinavia, cuyas largas e intrincadas costas marinas y archipiélagos condujeron al surgimiento de una cultura basada en la tierra, pero muy dependiente del mar. 

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