Aqua Image of Olivia (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Aqua Image of Olivia

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At 5:45 a.m. EDT (0945UTC) on Sept. 4, the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looked at Hurricane Olivia in infrared light. MODIS found coldest cloud tops (red) had temperatures near minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56.6 degrees Celsius).

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