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Hurricane Isabel north of Puerto Rico

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Isabel about 400 miles north of Puerto Rico on September 14, 2003, at 14:45 UTC. At the time, Isabel was packing maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour, making it a rare and powerful Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published September 14, 2003
Data acquired September 14 - 14, 2003

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Topic:
Atmosphere > Atmospheric Phenomena > Hurricanes
Collections:
MODIS Rapid Response
Visible Earth