Latest NASA images: Earl and oil rig

By Scott Harris, News Anchor
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:35 PM

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ORLANDO --

Some new NASA images of Hurricane Earl and that oil rig fire that broke out yesterday in the Gulf.

Here is the TERRA satellite image of the oil rig fire, about 80 miles south of Central Louisiana. It is hard to make out, but there is a small plume of smoke in the image.

NASA has also posted an impressive image of Hurricane Earl, also from the TERRA Satellite. TERRA orbits the other a little over 400 miles up.

The usual weather satellites, GOES, are in geostationary orbit, some 22,000 miles above the Earth.

Even closer than TERRA is the International Space Station, orbiting typically at a little over 200 miles. The astronauts aboard took some fascinating video of Earl as they passed over it Wednesday afternoon.

And one more view of Earl, from approximately 60-thousand feet up, NASA’s research unmanned aircraft, the Global Hawk, flew through Earl yesterday, gathering data and images.

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