Image:Hurricane Katrina August 28 2005 NASA.jpg - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

# Image:Hurricane Katrina August 28 2005 NASA.jpg

### From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Image
- File history
- Links

Size of this preview: 465 × 600 pixel
Image in higher resolution (6200 × 8000 pixel, file size: 9.5 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The description on its description page there and licensing information is visible below.

## [edit] Summary

Description

"Hurricane Katrina is comparable in intensity to Hurricane Camille of 1969, only larger", warned the National Hurricane Center on Sunday, August 28, 2005. By this time, Hurricane Katrina was set to become one of the most powerful storms to strike the United States, with winds of 257 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour) and stronger gusts. The air pressure, another indicator of hurricane strength, at the center of this Category 5 storm measured 902 millibars, the fourth lowest air pressure on record for an Atlantic storm. The lower the air pressure, the more powerful the storm.

Two hours after the National Hurricane Center issued their warning, the Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this image from NASA’s Terra satellite. The massive storm covers much of the Gulf of Mexico, spanning from the U.S. coast to the Yucatan Peninsula.

Source | http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=7938
Date | August 28, 2005, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Author | NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at Goddard Space Flight Center

Permission

This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy).

Warnings:

- Use of NASA logos (which include the current "meatball" logo, the old "worm" logo, and the seal) is restricted.
- The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not in the public domain.
- Materials from the Hubble Space Telescope may be copyrighted if they do not explicitly come from the STScI. [1]
- All materials created by the SOHO probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2]
- Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3]

## Links

The following pages link to this file:

- Hurricane Katrina (2005)
- Tropical cyclone

Retrieved from "http://simple.wikipedia.org../../../h/u/r/Image%7EHurricane_Katrina_August_28_2005_NASA.jpg_70aa.html"

##### Views

- File
- Talk
- Newest version

##### Search