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Hurricane Dean lost a considerable fraction of its power as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula, but it was still a hurricane with powerful winds and very heavy rains when it struck the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz on August 23. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of Hurricane Dean at 345 p.m. local time (1945 UTC) on August 22, 2007, as the storm was plunging inland over Mexico towards the high mountain ranges that form the spine of Mexico. Making landfall with 160-kilometer-per-hour (100-mile-per-hour) sustained winds, Dean lost strength over land. The storm still possessed the signature spiral structure of a hurricane, but the central eye appeared to be gone by the time MODIS observed the storm. On the right side of the image, the usually dark blue waters of Campeche Sound are pale where Dean's powerful winds churned up a trail of sand and sediment. The winds were reduced in strength through this second land...