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Blanca on Approach to Baja

Hurricane Blanca was on approach to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula as a Category 3 storm.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Blanca on Approach to Baja.

NASA Earth Observatory map (top) by Joshua Stevens, using RapidScat data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA image (bottom) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen

Published June 8, 2015
Data acquired June 7, 2015

Sources:: ISS > RapidScat; Terra > MODIS