CloudSat's Side View of Typhoon Morakot (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

CloudSat's Side View of Typhoon Morakot

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NASA's CloudSat captured a side view of Morakot on Aug. 7 and found Morakot's clouds are over 17 km (10 miles) high!

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NASA/JPL/CSU/NRL-Monterey

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