Aqua Image of 05S (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Aqua Image of 05S

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At 12 p.m. EST (1700 UTC) on Jan. 10, NASA's Aqua satellite provided a look at temperatures of 05S's cloud tops. MODIS found the lowest cloud top temperature is about minus 90 degrees Celsius (minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit) in a band of thunderstorms stretching from west to north of the center and over the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean.

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