Terra Image of Olivia (image)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

At 4:45 a.m. EDT (0845 UTC) on Sept. 11, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite looked at Hurricane Olivia in infrared light. MODIS found coldest cloud tops (red) had temperatures near minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56.6 degrees Celsius).

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Credit: NASA/NRL

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