We understand that Sandy was devastating, and we understand that it was a hybrid super-storm, a frankenstorm generated from the clash of hurricane and cold front. Now understand how Sandy was built. This is what it looked like from the inside.NASA’s TRIMM satellite offers the most up close and personal examination of the minute mechanics of Sandy we’re likely to get; the scientists who run it explain how it all works in the video above. The segment is the best 5-minute explanation of Sandy you’re ever going to see, it’s NASA brains with an NPR delivery.Bottom line: we’ve gotten really good at predicting and unpacking how hurricanes are fed and how they behave. We’re better than ever at predicting their paths. Now we’ve got to get better at preparing for them.Because, well, see the scientists’ take on the climate link. We’re stacking the deck for wilder weather. I do want to note that there are two separate climate points mentioned that remain unconnected in the video; that the extraordinary melting of the Greenland ice sheet this year produced a weather system that batted Sandy leftward and inland—thus making her more devastating—and that climate change is to the earth as steroids is to the heavy hitter in baseball.The scientist in the clip is hesitant to draw any stronger correlation between Sandy and climate change than saying the overall system is now amped up and more likely to produced steroided results like nastier storms—but his colleagues pointed out earlier that, indeed, it was the (record-breaking) ice melt that ultimately shifted the storm’s path toward heavily populated areas. We’ll have to wait for more data to make any conclusive statements, but it certainly seems that global warming’s fingerprints were all over Sandy; that the climate wouldn’t have whipped up this particular monster without steroids.