Aqua Image of Isaac (image)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

At 12:15 a.m. EDT (0415 UTC) on Sept. 10, 2018 the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looked at Hurricane Isaac in infrared light. MODIS found coldest cloud tops (red) had temperatures near minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56.6 degrees Celsius) around the center.

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NASA/NRL

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