Environmental News Network - NASA Sees Typhoon Maysak’s Eye Reopen

Details: By NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; 01.Sep

NASA’s Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of Typhoon Maysak is it continued moving north though the East China Sea.

Michael Hammer

The imagery revealed the eye of the storm had reappeared. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Maysak on Sept. 1. In the image, the eye was again visible after being obscured by clouds during the previous day, Aug. 31. Satellite imagery depicts deep convection and spiral banding of thunderstorms wrapping tightly into a low-level circulation center.

Satellite imagery was created using NASA’s Worldview product at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

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NASA Sees Typhoon Maysak’s Eye Reopen