Tornado researchers Shawn Erick McQuinn (left) and Tim Marshall (right) unload and deploy a tornado pod May 6, 2010.

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Tornado researchers Shawn Erick McQuinn (left) and Tim Marshall (right) unload and deploy a tornado pod, a weather probe designed to measure the windfield inside a tornado, May 6, 2010, in rural Kansas. Both are participating in Project Vortex 2, a two year science mission to study the origins of tornadoes.

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