File:Frances 2004-08-30 1710Z.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file ‎(4,000 × 4,000 pixels, file size: 2.17 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description In the nearly twenty-two hours that elapsed between when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite snapped the above image on August 30, and when the Terra satellite flew over the next day, Hurricane Frances intensified into a Category 4 storm. In the above image, acquired at 1:10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT), Frances has maximum sustained winds of 194 kilometers per hour (121 mph), a Category 3 Hurricane. The next morning at 10:45 a.m. EDT, the storm’s winds reached 285 kilometers per hour (135 mph), putting it in the Category 4 range. The storm has visually changed the period between the two acquisitions. On August 31, the storm seems more compact with a larger eye than it does in the above image.
Date
Source http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12384
Author NASA image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

30 August 2004

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:52, 8 November 2006Thumbnail for version as of 16:52, 8 November 20064,000 × 4,000 (2.17 MB)Good kitty== Summary == {{Information |Description=In the nearly twenty-two hours that elapsed between when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite snapped the above image on August 30, and when the Terra satellite flew
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frances_2004-08-30_1710Z.jpg"