Terra image of Norman (image)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

At 4:25 a.m. EDT (0825 UTC) on Sept. 6, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite looked at Hurricane Norman in infrared light. MODIS found coldest cloud tops (red) had temperatures near minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56.6 degrees Celsius) in a thick ring around the eye.

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Credit: NASA/NRL

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