Hurricane Alex

This view of Hurricane Alex in the western Gulf of Mexico was acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite just after noon Central Daylight Time on June 30, 2010. Around this time NOAA's National Hurricane Center reported Alex to be a strengthening Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 135 kilometers per hour (84 miles per hour). By 6 p.m. Central time, Alex had been upgraded to Category 2, with maximum sustained winds of 155 kilometers per hour (nearly 100 miles per hour). The storm made landfall in northeastern Mexico, just south of the Texas border, about three hours later. High winds and rough seas further north in the Gulf halted cleanup efforts associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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The height contrast between the clouds in the lower part of the atmosphere and the high clouds surrounding the hurricane's eye is dramatically seen in this image, which is a stereo anaglyph of a portion of the scene, created from MISR's nadir and 26-degree forward-viewing cameras. ... In this image, north is at the left. Viewing with red/blue glasses (red filter over left eye) is required to obtain the 3-D effect. The dimensions of this image are 455 by 325 kilometers (283 by 202 miles).

Photo credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team