The outer bands of Hurricane Isabel sweep over Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in this true-color modis.gsfc.nasa.gov Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image taken by NASA's Aqua satellite on September 17, 2003 at 2:24 pm, US Eastern time. At this time, the eye of the hurricane was still about 350 miles from the US shoreline, but moving north-northwest at 11 miles per hour. Isabel is a Category 2 hurricane, with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour.
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
| Date Taken: | 07.24.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 10.19.2012 17:41 |
| Photo ID: | 758282 |
| Resolution: | 1800x2400 |
| Size: | 1.25 MB |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
| Web Views: | 30 |
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