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Tropical Storm Elsa

The first hurricane of the Atlantic season made a series of landfalls and dropped abundant rain from the Caribbean to the U.S. East Coast.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Astronaut photograph ISS065-E-156511 was acquired on July 4, 2021, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using an 50 millimeter lens and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 65 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published July 8, 2021
Data acquired July 4 - 8, 2021

Sources:
ISS > Digital Camera
NOAA-20 > VIIRS