Environmental News Network - NASA Gets a Wide Angle View of Hurricane Genevieve

Details: By NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; 20.Aug

NASA provided a series of photos of Hurricane Genevieve as it affected Mexico’s southern Baja California peninsula.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station provided wide-angle photos of Genevieve, showing the size of the storm. Warnings and watches are in effect on Aug. 20.

International Space Station Astronaut Chris Cassidy snapped photos of the Eastern Pacific Ocean’s Hurricane Genevieve on Aug 19, 2020 at 4 p.m. EDT. The photos revealed a clear eye surrounded by a ring of powerful thunderstorms. At the time of the photo Genevieve’s tropical-storm force winds extended out 280 miles. By Aug. 20 as the storm weakened, its wind field expanded and hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 30 miles (45 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 115 miles (185 km).

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NASA Gets a Wide Angle View of Hurricane Genevieve