Amazing pictures of Sandy from space

[pokerfan]

NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at 1302 UTC (9:02 a.m. EDT). The line of clouds from the Gulf of Mexico north are associated with the cold front that Sandy is merging with. Sandy's western cloud edge is already over the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S.

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This image of Hurricane Sandy was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite around 2:42 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (06:42 Universal Time) on October 28, 2012.
The storm was captured by a special “day-night band,” which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as auroras, airglow, gas flares, city lights, and reflected moonlight. In this case, the cloud tops were lit by the nearly full Moon (full occurs on October 29). Some city lights in Florida and Georgia are also visible amidst the clouds.

[Lebam in LA]

1. Amazing

Thanks for the pictures

[dmr]

2. WOW! It's a monster. n/t

[Junkdrawer]

3. Is Earth dressing up as Jupiter for Halloween?

If so, Sandy needs gigatons of red dye...

[pokerfan]

5. yep

the great red spot...

[upi402]

4. The blue marble, only one with life

and nobody is talking about saving this lone biosphere.

it's soooo beautiful, even with that awful storm.