Tropical Cyclone Laurence - related image preview

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Tropical Cyclone Laurence

With a visible eye and tight bands of spiraling clouds, Cyclone Laurence was clearly a mature, well-developed cyclone when it went ashore over Western Australia for the second time, on December 21.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published December 23, 2009
Data acquired December 21, 2009

Source:
Aqua > MODIS