Tropical Cyclone Fay (18S) off Australia and Indonesia

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of Tropical Cyclone Fay churning in the Pacific waters between Australia and Indonesia. At the time this image was captured, Fay was located approximately 175 miles northwest of Kuri Bay and had winds gusting to 150 miles per hour.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2004-03-22