No. Tornadoes descend from severe thunderstorms. The view from above is blocked by the parent storm.
No. Tornadoes and hurricanes are atmospheric phenomena, and there is no atmosphere in space.
Yes. Tornadoes are often made visble by condensation in their funnels and by dust and debris. However, some tornadoes may be obsured from view by rain or the dark of night.
There is no scientific evidence to support the existence of space tornadoes as typically depicted in fiction. However, phenomena such as plasma tornadoes or magnetic tornadoes have been observed on other planets or celestial bodies.
Yes, tornadoes do touch the ground. If the don't they are not considered tornadoes. However, in order to qualify the visible funnel does not have to reach ground winds, just the vortex of wind.
Tornadoes cannot form in space. A tornado is a vortex of air. There is no air in space.
No. Tornadoes may be obscured by rain or the dark of night. A tornado that forms in a pocket of dry air with little or no dust that can be picked up will likely be invisible until it hits moister air or starts lifting dust or debris.
It is visible from the moon.
No. The space shuttle has nothing to do with tornadoes.
Tornadoes themselves cannot be seen from space because they are blocked from above by the thunderstorms that produce them. The link below shows a storm satellite of a storm system that was producing tornadoes at the time the picture was taken. The tornadoes themselves formed under the storms that are seen as the right-hand branch of the spiral-shaped system. Again, what you are seeing is the storm that produced the tornadoes, not the tornadoes themselves. At this resolution individual tornadoes would be too small to see anyway.
Tornadoes themselves are typically too small for satellites to directly observe. However, the atmospheric conditions that can lead to tornado formation, such as severe thunderstorms and rotating cloud patterns, are often visible from satellites. Meteorologists use satellite imagery in combination with ground-based observations to track and monitor the potential development of tornadoes.
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