Tropical Cyclone Kara was poised just offshore of the Pilbara coast of Western Australia on March 27, 2007. Kara was not a particularly severe storm, but was prepared to hit the same area that powerful earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14163 Cyclone George and Category 2 earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14162 Cyclone Jacob hit two weeks earlier.
This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (MODIS) on the terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite on March 27, 2007, at 10:25 a.m. local time (02:25 UTC). The storm was a tropical cyclone with a circular shape and distinct eye at its center. According to the University of Hawaii's http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/ Tropical Storm Information Center, Cyclone Kara had sustained winds of 145 kilometers per hour (90 miles per hour) near the time this image was acquired.
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 rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2007086-0327/Kara.A2007086.0225 additional resolutions.
You can download a eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/18000/18172/kara_tmo_2007086.kmz 250-meter-resolution Cyclone Kara KMZ file for use with earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
| Date Taken: | 08.01.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 10.19.2012 18:03 |
| Photo ID: | 759448 |
| Resolution: | 4000x5200 |
| Size: | 4.46 MB |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
| Web Views: | 6 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
