Hurricane Bill

This pair of images from August 22 shows a natural-color (photo-like) view of Hurricane Bill captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite combined with a view of the vertical structure of the clouds measured by the radar on the Cloudsat satellite.

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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using CloudSat FirstLook data provided courtesy of the CloudSat team at Colorado State University. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published August 24, 2009
Data acquired August 22, 2009

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CloudSat > CPR