What Nita Looks Like from the Side: CloudSat (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

What Nita Looks Like from the Side: CloudSat

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NASA's CloudSat satellite's Cloud Profiling Radar captured a side look (bottom image) across Nida on Nov. 28. Nida's clouds are over 15 kilometers or 9 miles high. The top image is from the METSAT satellite to show where CloudSat took its side view.

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NASA/JPL/Colorado State Univ./NRL-Monterey

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