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Cyclone Fantala

The category 5 storm became the most intense on record for the Indian Ocean.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Cyclone Fantala.

NASA image (top) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. NASA Earth Observatory image (bottom) by Joshua Stevens using RapidScat data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published April 20, 2016
Data acquired April 18, 2016