A view of Hurricane Sandy overnight. Visible are cloud tops that were lit by the nearly full Moon (full occurs on October 29). Some city lights in Florida and Georgia are also seen through the clouds. At the time the image was captured, the U.S. National Hurricane Center estimated Sandy's location to be 31.5簞 North and 73.7簞 West, 275 miles (445 kilometers) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and moving northeast at 14 miles (22 kilometers) per hour. Maximum sustained winds were 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour. This image was taken by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite at 2:42 a.m. on October 28, 2012.