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Three different typhoons were spinning over the western Pacific Ocean on August 7

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Three different typhoons were spinning over the western Pacific Ocean on August 7, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAOs Aqua satellite acquired this image. The strongest of the three, Typhoon Saomai (lower right), formed in the western Pacific on August 4, 2006, as a tropical depression. Within a day, it had become organized enough to be classified as a tropical storm. While Saomai was strengthening into a storm, another tropical depression formed a few hundred kil

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Phil Degginger

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