An Infrared Look at Gelane's Clouds (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

An Infrared Look at Gelane's Clouds

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The atmospheric infrared sounder instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured Gelane on Feb. 19 at 4:41 a.m. ET (09:41UTC). Even Gelane's eye is visible in this infrared image, and it's surrounded by very high, powerful thunderstorms with cloud tops as cold as -63F.

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NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen

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