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Left: This animation of Hurricane Luis from September 6th was composed using a series of visible-light frames taken at one-minute intervals. Both are from GOES-8, one of NASA’s geostationary weather satellites. (Animation courtesy NASA GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres)

   
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