In September, NASA‘s Visible Earth website and its contents will be assimilated into a new home on science.nasa.gov. This integration will unfortunately bring an end to our RSS feeds. If you are a user of these feeds and have a need to continue using them, please contact us so that we might be able to point you in other directions, if possible.

Typhoon Soudelor Takes Aim at Taiwan - selected image

Typhoon Soudelor Takes Aim at Taiwan - selected child image

Typhoon Soudelor Takes Aim at Taiwan - related image preview

Data acquired August 7, 2015
720 x 720
JPEG

Data acquired August 7, 2015
6400 x 8400
11 MB - JPEG

Data acquired August 5, 2015
720 x 520
JPEG

Data acquired August 5, 2015
1507 x 998
393 KB - JPEG

Data acquired August 6, 2015
720 x 480
GIF

720 x 480
JPEG

Typhoon Soudelor Takes Aim at Taiwan

The storm has central Taiwan in its sights.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Typhoon Soudelor Takes Aim at Taiwan.

NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using RapidScat data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Natural-color animation based on Himawari imagery, courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published August 8, 2015
Data acquired August 5, 2015

Sources:: Aqua > MODIS; Himawari-8 > Advanced Himawari Imager