Hurricane Fred - related image preview

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Hurricane Fred

In this image of wind speed and direction, Hurricane Fred exhibits a distinctive “s” shape—a structure left over, perhaps, from its time as a Category 4 storm.


NASA image courtesy of David Long, Brigham Young University, on the QuikSCAT Science Team, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published September 10, 2009
Data acquired September 9, 2009

Source:
QuikSCAT
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