Typhoon Parma (21W), north of the Mariana Islands

On it’s eighth day as a typhoon, Typhoon Parma continues to churn through the Northwest Pacific Ocean. When the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image on October 30, 2003, Parma still boasted 132 mile per hour winds. The storm was moving northeast away from Japan and was not expected to make landfall.

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Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published October 30, 2003
Data acquired October 30 - 30, 2003

Source:

Aqua > MODIS

Topic:

Atmosphere > Atmospheric Phenomena > Typhoons