PIA21093: JPL's HAMSR Takes Hurricane Matthew's Temperature
JPL's High-Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Sounding Radiometer (HAMSR) instrument captured this look inside Hurricane Matthew's spiral clouds on Oct. 7, 2016
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Spacecraft:  Global Hawk
 Instrument:  HAMSR 
 Product Size:  3325 x 2160 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
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JPL's High-Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Sounding Radiometer (HAMSR) instrument captured this look inside Hurricane Matthew's spiral clouds on Oct. 7, 2016, flying on a NASA Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. Red colors show cloud bands without precipitation; blues show rain bands.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech HAMSR team/NOAA SHOUT Team/NASA Global Hawk Team

Image Addition Date:
2016-10-07