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Tropical Storms Kristy and Lane
September 18, 2012 | NASA Earth Observatory

“Two storms swirled simultaneously in the eastern Pacific Ocean in mid-September 2012 — close enough to each other to be captured in a single overpass.

At 11:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on September 16, [...] NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image of Kristy and Lane.” Quoted from the Earth Observatory website.


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