Tropical Storm Ernesto formed in the eastern Caribbean Sea on August 24, 2006. Within a day, it had become organized enough to be classified as a tropical storm and get named as the fifth storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.
This photo-like image of Ernesto was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (MODIS) on the terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite on August 30 2006, at 12:20 p.m. local time (16:20 UTC). Tropical Storm Ernesto at the time of this image was a distinctive spiral-shaped storm system, bringing rain to central Florida. According to the University of Hawaii's www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html Tropical Storm Information Center, Ernesto had sustained peak winds of around 55 kilometers per hour (35 miles per hour) at the time of this image.
The high-resolution image provided above is provided at the full MODIS 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/?2006242-0830/Ernesto.A2006242.1620 additional resolutions.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
| Date Taken: | 07.31.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 02.08.2013 03:27 |
| Photo ID: | 833983 |
| Resolution: | 5600x7200 |
| Size: | 4.36 MB |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, D.C., US |
| Web Views: | 16 |
| Downloads: | 3 |
