The MODIS instrument onboard NASA´s Terra spacecraft captured this bird´s-eye view of Typhoon Dujuan (Mandarin for azalea) as it was located just off the coast of China, near Hong Kong. At the time this image was taken on September 2, 2003, Dujuan was packing sustained winds near 70 mph with higher gusts and was moving toward the west-northwest at 21 mph.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet
/
Russian space agency
, and other non-American space agencies. These are
not necessarily
in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA)
joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
[2]