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NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP Satellite Gets Night-time Look at Category 4 Hurricane Lane

On Aug. 23 8:40 a.m. EDT (0240 HST/1240 UTC). The VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP Satellite passed over Hurricane Lane when it was a Category 4 storm in the Central Pacific Ocean. Suomi NPP provided night-time view that showed the eye, gravity waves, and feeder bands of thunderstorms wrapping into the eye.

Image Credit: NASA/NOAA/UWM-CIMSS/William Straka III

For NASA's Hurricane Lane page: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/lane" rel="nofollow">www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/lane</a>

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at https://flickr.com/photos/35278629@N08/44221113301 (archive). It was reviewed on 2 September 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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