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nasa new
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image
collection:
nasa
collection:
nasanaturalhazards
title:
Typhoon Man-Yi: Natural Hazards
description:
On July 12, 2007, Super Typhoon Man-Yi was a huge spiral of clouds, intense winds, and powerful thunderstorms as it arced northward over the western Pacific toward the southern end of the islands of Japan. Though far offshore, the www.nhc.noaa.gov/abo utsshs.shtml Category 4 Super Typhoon was large enough that the outer bands of storm clouds were bringing wind and rain to Taiwan. Forecasts as of July 12 were calling for the storm to weaken as it traveled through the island chain and to reach Tokyo as a milder, but still powerful, typhoon on or around July 15.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( modis.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS ) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov/ Aqua satellite acquired this photo-like image at 2:05 p.m. local time (5:05 UTC). Very near the same time MODIS was observing the storm, the https://metocph.nmc…Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimated Man-Yi's sustained winds to be over 240 kilometers per hour (145 miles per hour). The satellite image confirms that Man-Yi was a powerful Super Typhoon. The storm has the hallmark tightly wound arms that spiral around a well-defined, circular eye. The symmetrical spirals, clear eye, and intense storm clouds around the eyewall (innermost band of clouds) are all features regularly seen in satellite images of other particularly powerful typhoons.

The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS' full spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at http://rapidfire.sc…additional resolutions.

You can download a eoimages.gsfc.nasa.g ov/images/imagerecor ds/18000/18683/Man-Y i.A2007193.0505.250m .kmz 250-meter-resolution Super Typhoon Man-Yi KMZ file for use with earth.google.com/dow nload-earth.html Google Earth.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
subject:
What -- Earth
subject:
Where -- Japan
subject:
Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
subject:
What -- Aqua
subject:
Where -- Taiwan
subject:
Where -- Tokyo
what:
Earth
what:
Aqua
where:
Japan
where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
where:
Taiwan
where:
Tokyo
identifier:
manyi_amo_2007193
uploader:
gwilliam@archive.org
addeddate:
2011-08-02 04:33:54
publicdate:
2011-08-02 04:33:54
creator:
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
ImageUID:
file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/manyi_amo_2007 193/manyi_amo_200719 3_lrg.jpg
filename:
manyi_amo_2007193_lr g.jpg
date:
2007-07-12
rights:
Public Domain
source:
year:
2007
language:
eng

Typhoon Man-Yi: Natural Hazards