Cyclone Freddy is pictured northeast of the island nation of Mauritius from the International Space Station as it orbited 267 miles above the Indian Ocean on Feb. 20, 2023.
Cyclone Freddy is pictured northeast of the island nation of Mauritius from the International Space Station as it orbited 267 miles above the Indian Ocean on Feb. 20, 2023.
On the space station are two NASA-built weather instruments, the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) and the Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST), that track tropical cyclones like Freddy. Launched in late 2021 to the space station, COWVR measures the speed and direction of wind at the ocean surface, and TEMPEST provides atmospheric water vapor measurements.
Image Credit: NASA/Nicole Mann