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English: On March 6, 2004, Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Gafilo approached Madagascar. The system soon became the most intense tropical cyclone in the South-West Indian Ocean on record, before making landfall over Madagascar early on March 7. This image was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite at 06:55 UTC on March 6, 2004.
Українська: Супутниковий знімок циклону Гафіло над західною акваторією Індійського океану, поблизу північно-східного узбережжя Мадагаскару, 6 березня 2004 року.
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Source http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=Gafilo.A2004066.0655.2km.jpg
Author NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
Camera location14° 36′ 00″ S, 53° 18′ 00″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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current20:03, 26 April 2013Thumbnail for version as of 20:03, 26 April 20136,400 × 8,400 (6.17 MB)MeowI checked Rapid Response, and it provided another version which uses grey lines instead of black lines.
03:38, 22 April 2013Thumbnail for version as of 03:38, 22 April 20136,400 × 8,400 (6.86 MB)Earth100Larger field of view image.
14:36, 6 August 2006Thumbnail for version as of 14:36, 6 August 20065,920 × 5,920 (3.93 MB)Frumpybigger version from en.wikipedia
15:17, 1 May 2006Thumbnail for version as of 15:17, 1 May 20064,000 × 4,000 (1.91 MB)Mikoyan21~commonswikiSatellite picture of Cyclone Gafilo at peak intensity about 180nm east from Madagascar. Image by Joint Typhoon Warning Center. ==Source/Credit== http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=6586 NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response T

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