Hurricane Season 2006: Carina (Indian Ocean) Tropical Cyclone
Carina appears as a tightly wound spiral in the Indian Ocean in
this satellite view of the storm, obtained by the Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on
NASA’s Aqua satellite on February 27, 2006. Carina had become an
organized storm system four days earlier, and built rapidly into
a powerful cyclone. By the time MODIS obtained this observation
of Carina, peak winds were blowing at 175 kilometers per hour
(110 miles per hour). However, the tropical cyclone was moving
into the southern Indian Ocean well away from the nearest land,
even the very remote Cocos Islands several hundred kilometers
east. Click on image to see high resolution version of image.