Hurricane Fausto weakened as it moved westward in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and by the time this image was acquired on August 25, 2002, it had dropped from Category 4 to Category 2 hurricane status. This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
