Cloudsat Image of Amanda (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Cloudsat Image of Amanda

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NASA's CloudSat satellite flew over Hurricane Amanda on May 25, at 5 p.m. EDT and saw a deep area of moderate to heavy-moderate precipitation below the freezing level (where precipitation changes from frozen to liquid).

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Image Credit: Colorado State University

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