Aqua Image of Wutip (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Aqua Image of Wutip

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At 10:25 a.m. EDT (1525 UTC) on Feb. 21, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looked at Tropical Cyclone Wutip in infrared light. MODIS found coldest cloud tops (light green) had temperatures near minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 62.2 degrees Celsius) around the center of circulation.

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