Cyclone Gafilo was both the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the South-West Indian Ocean and the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2004. This image was take by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra Earth Observing System satellite on March 6, 2004 as the storm approached northeastern Madagascar. Gafilo would go on to kill more than 300 people in the country.
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