Terra Image of Matthew (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Terra Image of Matthew

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On Oct. 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew made landfall on southwestern Haiti as a category-4 storm -- the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean nation in more than 50 years. Just hours after landfall, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image. At the time, Matthew had top sustained winds of about 230 kilometers (145 miles) per hour.

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Credits: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens

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