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Images & Animations
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Credit
Image provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Typhoon Chaba on August 29 at 1:45 UTC.
The SeaWiFS sensor aboard the OrbView-2 satellite captured this true-color image of Typhoon Chaba on August 26, 2004 at 3:30 UTC. At the time this image was taken, Chaba was located approximately 1185 km (736 miles) south-southeast of Sasebo, Japan and was moving towards the north-northwest at 15 km/hr (9 mph). Maximum sustained winds were near 213 km/hr (132 mph) with higher gusts to 260 km/hr (161 mph). The Joint Typhoon Warning Center was forecasting Chaba to weaken over the next 72 hours.
Metadata
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Sensor
OrbView-2/SeaWiFS -
Start Date
2004-08-26 -
Event Start Date
2004-08-23 -
NH Image ID
12371 -
NH Event ID
10461 -
NH Posting Date
2004-08-27