These July 11, 2006 images are from the Multi-angle Imaging
SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA's Terra Satellite. They
show then Tropical Storm Bud as it was intensifying into a hurricane, which
it became later that day. The true-color image at left is next to an image of
cloud heights on the right. Two-dimensional maps of cloud heights such as
these give scientists an opportunity to compare their models against actual
hurricane observations.
At the time of these images, Bud was located near 14.4 degrees north latitude
and 112.5 degrees west longitude, or about 620 miles (1000 kilometers)
southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico.
MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena,Calif. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. JPL is a division of the California
Institute of Technology.
