Want to see what a major hurricane looks like chewing through a nation of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets? NASA's TRMM satellite has the goods, displaying Hurricane Irene—white tendrils of tropical fury stretching hundreds of miles north and south of the island chain—as it whips over Crooked Island in the Bahamas.
TRMM, which stands for Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, also has its eye on Irene's moisture output. According to NASA, the satellite's been able to track rainfall rates, cloud heights and "hot towering clouds that act as hurricane heat engines."
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