Space Station Cameras Capture Views of Approaching Hurricane Sandy

From an altitude of 254 statute miles, external cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Sandy at 11:16 a.m. Eastern time October 29, 2012 as it barreled toward a landfall along the New Jersey coastline. Significant impacts of storm surge and flooding are expected along the eastern seaboard from the Middle Atlantic states to New England. At the time of the flyover, Sandy was located 260 miles south-southeast of New York City, moving north-northwest at 18 miles an hour with winds measured at 90 miles an hour as a Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. Landfall along or just south of the southern New Jersey coast is expected late in the evening on October 29 after which a turn to the west-northwest is expected. After moving inland over the mid-Atlantic states, a decrease in forward speed is expected. By mid-week, Sandy, as a post-tropical cyclone, is forecast to move northward and then northeastward across Pennsylvania and New York state dropping significant amounts of rainfall

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[Katy O'Neill]

Because Obama can control the weather....

[Aj Bra]

Jupiter: Oh look, a baby hurricane. How cute.

[Nicolas Dufour]

It's real time yes.

[klarkgamer]

This is realtime? I mean, this video was accelerated?

[teryn cate]

if it hit the caribean why did it not hit me i live in the caribean!?!?

[AoiMitsuko]

I got a super long clip of this that I recorded it with fraps when I fell asleep and let the ISSlivefeed play from 10 50 am till about 2 20 pm on the 29th

[Hawkar Mohammad]

WoW is amazing

[krrrruptidsoless]

Or the planet gets rid of money and everything is better. And they don't waste nonrenewable resources on space junk. Not saying telescopes are wrong but....They are not going to find any real life in this or any reachable galaxy. It's an energy and warmth thing that creates trees and plants to grow.. That and water and such. Your on a planet that you probably looked at from another planet like Saturn in this galaxy and said or your like being said. I want to go their. Which is where you are.

[Relativisticism]

There are the problem is optics on the cameras are not sensitive enough to pick up their faintness relative to the "light pollution" generated by the sun shining on objects closer to the cameras. Similar to trying to see stars in the sky while the sun is lighting up the sky.

[MrTURBOJOHN]

Neptune to Jupiter: Oh look, baby gases moving slowly...

How cute.

[picobyte]

Nothing beats having a web cam in space :) But having it in Full HD or better would be awesome :D