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Dr. Amber Jenkins

Amber Jenkins is Editor of NASA's Climate Change website and project manager of the Center for Climate Sciences at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She's passionate about climate change, science and science communication.

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Tropical Storm Danielle
If you were a space traveler ...
October 22, 2010
posted by Dr. Amber Jenkins
17:00 PDT
Tropical Storm Danielle
Astronaut photograph ISS024-E-12954, taken August 30, 2010. Larger version available here.

From Robert Simmon, NASA Earth Observatory

... this is one of the views you might glimpse. Strong convection created these “hot towers” near the eye of Tropical Storm Danielle.

Cross-posted from the Earth Observatory's blog, Elegant Figures. Robert is a visualizer for the Earth Observatory.

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