Mon Oct 29, 2012, 12:47 PM
LongTomH (3,997 posts)
Sandy's Big Night -- from Bad Astronomy.com
The picture below was taken by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite:
Sandy's clouds are illuminated by the full moon. You can see the lights of southeastern US cities shining through the clouds. Bad Astronomer Phil Plait had these comments: I suppose this is how a mouse feels, staring into the eyes of snake. There is a simultaneous dread, paralyzing fear, and entrancing beauty to hurricanes seen from space. I marvel when I see these… and then I remember the dozen or so hurricanes I’ve lived and driven through; the adrenaline surges every time I heard a branch crash down; the lying in bed at night awake, wondering what I’d awaken to. There can be terror in beauty.
Terror in beauty, indeed! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/29/sandys-big-night/ There are larger, hi-res images on NASA Goddard's flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8132037748/sizes/o/in/photostream/
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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 01:36 PM
LongTomH (3,997 posts)
2. Thanks for the comment and the link!
