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Satellite View	Vertical Slice Through The Eye

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured data for Hurricane Claudette, the first hurricane of the 2003 Atlantic season, before making landfall on the Texas coast. The images were made from data produced at 2:00 am CDT (7:00 UTC) when Claudette was still 160 miles east of Corpus Christi, Texas. It shows that Claudette had become much better organized with a broad but closed eye. The faint white areas are cloud as seen by IR, brighter white areas indicate the rain pattern estimated by the TRMM Microwave Instrument (TMI), and the green, yellow and red colors represent increasing rain intensity, respectively, as seen by the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR).

TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency NASDA.

Images generated by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).