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2005 Hurricane Rita

Rita crossed the threshold to tropical storm status around 5 pm (local time) on September 18, 2005. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of Rita roughly fives hours earlier at 11:40 a.m. while the storm was still an organizing tropical depression. The classical spiral structure of a hurricane is not yet full formed, nor is there a well organized eye of the storm, but these nascent features of the developing system are apparent already.

Overview satellite imagery of Tropical Depression Rita
	Overview satellite imagery of Tropical Depression Rita [Source:NASA]