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Contact: Barbra Gonzalez
barbgo@rsmas.miami.edu
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University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science

Freighter in the Eye of Hurricane Ike

Caption: Remotely-sensed satellite image of Hurricane Ike just an hour before landfall captured by the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing at the University of Miami. The small white dot on the right side of eye is a stranded freighter offshore from Galveston.

Credit: (c) ESA [2008], captured and processed by CSTARS/UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI under license from Eurimage.

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