Typhoon Ketsana (20W), off the Philippine Islands

  • Credit

    Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Typhoon Ketsana spins north, northeast away from the Philippine Islands in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image captured by the Terra satellite on October 21, 2003, at 1:55 UTC. At the time this image was taken, the storm had sustained winds of 144 miles per hour with gusts to 173 miles per hour, the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS
  • Visualization Date

    2003-10-21