Hurricanes, Seen From Space (25 photos)

güttsfükk · #11 ● 04-06-2010, 04:59 AM

Hurricane Douglas, seen on July 23, 2002. Douglas had dropped back to category 1 status as it moved away from the Baja California Peninsula in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 23.

güttsfükk · #12 ● 04-06-2010, 04:59 AM

Banding of surrounding clouds can be seen from the International Space Station as it passes over Hurrican Frances on Sept. 2nd, 2004

güttsfükk · #13 ● 04-06-2010, 04:59 AM

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)instrument onboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Kate on October 4, 2003. At the time this image was taken Kate had sustained winds of 115 mph and was moving towards the west at 12 mph.

güttsfükk · #14 ● 04-06-2010, 05:00 AM

This high-oblique panoramic view, recorded by a digital still camera using a 400mm lens, shows the eye of Hurricane Emily on July 16th, 2005. The image was captured by the crew of the International Space Station while the complex was over the southern Gulf of Mexico looking eastwardly toward the rising moon. At the time, Emily was a strengthening Category 4 hurricane with winds of nearly 155 miles per hour and moving west-northwestwardly over the northwest Caribbean Sea about 135 miles southwest of Kingston, Jamaica.