Cyclone Nargis (IMAGE)

European Space Agency

Cyclone Nargis

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Envisat captures Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on May 1, 2008, with its Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument working in Reduced Resolution mode to deliver a spatial resolution of 1200 meters.

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