NASA satellite sees 2 vortices circling newborn Tropical Storm Man-yi's center
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 11:00
in Earth & Climate
NASA's Terra satellite passed over newborn Tropical Storm Man-yi and captured and image that clearly showed two vortices rotating around a large center of circulation. Man-yi formed on Sept. 12 in the northwestern Pacific Ocean as the sixteenth tropical depression and by Sept. 13 it strengthened into a tropical storm.