For 10 years, it has silently swooped through space in its orbital perch 438 miles (705 kilometers) above Earth, its nearly 2,400 spectral "eyes" peering into Earth's atmosphere, watching.

A NASA satellite used infrared and microwave "vision" to analyze the storm system that created the March 3 severe weather outbreak in the U.S.

NASA satellites have been watching the low pressure area called System 92S for days, and infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed cloud temperatures were cooling, indicating the storm was getting more organized as it moved over northern Madagascar.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian man accused of hacking into NASA climate research computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, prosecutors announced on Wednesday.

GREENBELT, Md., Feb.