The Roiling Clouds of Katrina Quick Time Movie for PIA04383
Roiling Clouds of Katrina This image pair and animation from
NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) shows the
strong convective development of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday,
August 27 as it moved west through the Gulf of Mexico. Over 7
minutes during which all 9 MISR cameras viewed Katrina, the
animation captures the cloud-top sides, the counterclockwise
rotation of the eyewall, and the bubbling growth of the towering
cloud structures. At this time, Katrina was undergoing rapid
development -- it had just been upgraded to a Category 3
hurricane, and within 24 hours it would reach Category 5. On
Monday morning when the eyewall made landfall over the United
States, it was again a Category 4 storm. Hurricane Katrina is
one of the most powerful and destructive storms on record for
the Atlantic Basin. The animation progresses from MISR's most
forward pointing camera, which views the scene first, to the
most backward pointing camera, which view