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Fly along with NASA's remotely operated Global Hawk aircraft as it examines Hurricane Karl.

The Global Hawk makes its first of 20 passes over the eye of Hurricane Karl as the storm moves over the Gulf of Mexico.

More spacious than your typical cockpit: the Global Hawk Operations Center at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California.

One of NASA's Global Hawks undergoes systems testing before the 2010 GRIP mission to study hurricane formation and intensification.

Before the Global Hawk arrived on the scene, NASA's Terra satellite captured Karl as a Category 2 storm on Sep. 16.