NASA's Aqua Satellite Captured Infrared Imagery of Hurricane Sandy (IMAGE)

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NASA's Aqua Satellite Captured Infrared Imagery of Hurricane Sandy

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The AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared imagery of Hurricane Sandy on Monday, Oct. 29 at 0711 UTC (3:11 a.m. EDT) that showed some strong thunderstorms (purple) and the extent of Sandy's reach (blue) from the Carolinas into the Ohio Valley and eastern Canada. The thunderstorms in the purple areas were reaching high into the troposphere where cloud top temperatures are as cold as -63 Fahrenheit (-52 Celsius).

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Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

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