NASA’s GOES Project has just released a “movie” of satellite imagery showing the life and times of 2010’s only June hurricane. From birth to death, the GOES-13 satellite kept an eye on the life and times of Hurricane Alex for two weeks in June, 2010.

Hurricane Alex struggled for life for two weeks in June 2010, and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) known as GOES-13 captured satellite images of the storm. Those satellite images were compiled into an animation by Dr. Dennis Chesters of NASA’s GOES Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “The animation is an example of one of the tropical-storm-in-ten which bloom into a hurricane,” Chesters said.

GOES-13 is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and images are created by NASA’s GOES Project, located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.