
NASA Terra spacecraft passed over Hurricane Irene while it was just north of the Bahamas on Aug. 25, 2011. At the time, Irene was a category three hurricane making landfall in North Carolina on the morning of Aug. 27 as a category one hurricane.
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NASA ID
PIA14741
Date Created
August 27, 2011
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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