Tropical Cyclone Kalunde in the central Indian Ocean

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

With sustained winds near 64 km per hour (40 mph), Tropical Cyclone was located approximately 449 miles southeast of Diego Garcia and was moving towards the west-northwest at 7 km per hour (5 mph) as of March 5, 2003. This true-color image of the storm was acquired March 5 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2003-03-05