Satellite Image of the Day: September 3, 2004
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Satellite: NOAA-17, one of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites.
Flyover beginning 11:04am EDT
Hurricane Frances
Hurricane Frances' path continues to take her along the (soaked) Bahama chain, towards Florida.
Frances is actually losing steam a bit, downgrading from a Category 4 to a Category 2 hurricane.
The skewed yellow circle in the northwestern corner of this image shows the location of Radford University.
Click on the image below for a higher-resolution (>100k) image of just the main part of Hurricane Frances.