AIRS Image of Olivia (image)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

At 4:50 p.m. EDT (2205 UTC) on Sept. 6, the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looked at Hurricane Olivia in infrared light. AIRS found coldest cloud tops ( had temperatures near minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius).

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Credit: NASA/NRL

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