News | August 25, 2008

Fay's Rains Still Drenching the Southeast

While now a tropical depression, Fay continues spreading heavy rain and winds over a wide swath of the U.S. Southeast, as seen in this Aug. 25 afternoon infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft.

From its perch on the international space station, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 is gathering its very first CO2 data. It's also measuring plant 'glow. '

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 Gets First Data
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder aboard the Aqua satellite captured the storm as it was just south of Louisiana at around 2 p.m. local time.

NASA's AIRS Images Tropical Storm Barry Before Landfall
The mission produced a map of damage - the most substantial within a 6-mile area of Ridgecrest - caused by the pair of temblors that recently struck Southern California.

NASA's ARIA Team Maps California Quake Damage