Tropical depression seventeen-e formed around 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday night and within twelve hours it strengthened into Tropical Storm Nora.

By 11 a.m. EDT today, Wednesday, September 23, Nora had maximum sustained winds near 45 mph, in the open waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Nora’s center was about 665 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja California, near latitude 16.5 north and 117.5 west. Nora is moving west-northwest near 9 mph. Nora’s estimated minimum central pressure is 1002 millibars.

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite, captured an image of Tropical Storm Nora yesterday at 5:29 a.m. EDT, that showed she was still coming together. Eighteen hours after the image was taken, Nora formed as tropical depression 17-E.

She’s currently a small storm, as tropical storm-force winds only extend out to 40 miles from the center. Some strengthening is expected over the next 24 hours

NASA has released a video of Hurricane Bill today from the GOES-14 satellite. The video was put together from a series of still frames taken by the satellite using both infrared and visible imagery and provides different views of Hurricane Bill on August 20.

Earlier this summer, NASA launched the latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O. Recently operations have been turned over to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the satellite was renamed GOES-14. The satellite is still being tested in orbit, and it captured video of Hurricane Bill on August 20, while it was on its way to Bermuda.

The spectacular video is a collection of a few quick movies put together by the GOES-14 team from the NASA GOES Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

The video includes an impressive zoom-out, showing how big the hurricane is, relative to the hemisphere. Bill is a large hurricane, more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) across, and the storm’s partially cloud-filled eye is nearly 50 kilometers (31 miles) wide.

On August 20, the date of the movie, Hurricane Bill had sustained winds of 135 mph, making it a powerful Category 4 storm. At that time hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 80 miles from the center. On August 21, Bill’s sustained winds were near 110 mph and hurricane force winds extended up to 115 miles.