Images and animations courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio. animation (4 MB MPEG) As
Hurricane Ignacio was churning in the waters near Baja,
California, the TRMM and GOES satellites captured this image.
The accompanying visualization zooms down to the storm and peels
away the clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Greens
represent areas where rain is falling at a rate of 1 inch per
hour while the red areas are indicative of rain rates of 2
inches per hour. This image originally appeared on the Earth
Observatory. Click here to view the full, original record.