Hurricane Earl as Seen from ISS

From an altitude of 218 miles, the International Space Station flies over Hurricane Earl as it churns as a Category 4 storm northeast of Puerto Rico near the northern Antilles islands. The station's Progress 37 cargo craft and the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft are in the foreground.

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Science & Technology

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• NASA
• ISS
• Hurricane
• Earl

[DigitalReptile]

That hurricane is just thinking to itself as it rolls towards us "My Name Is Earl!"

[Ibis333]

Hey NASA! You're a science organisation. Please use metric (if you need to, you can give imperial measurements for the US public alongside....)

[thegreeensky]

nice view up there.. but hurricane looks scary in near hd view.... xD

[brav3h3art545]

@Ibis333 Or you know learn how to convert units. 3.1 miles = 5k do the math.

[Guanseen]

@DigitalReptile LOOOOL!!!!

[kokoheal]

I guess when you're in space, you can say a country's name with it's proper accent.

[quangluu96]

@Evaxlacrymosa i think what he means is the shot is from the south of earth, lolz but this hurricane is in the northern atmoshere

[Evaxlacrymosa]

@MStowastiqPackapic LMAO what do you mean "under" the planet?

[MStowastiqPackapic]

@xDeadlyzz

So this was shot from under the planet? or just the way the feed sent it? It is amazing either way. I went to the flicker of one of the astronauts live from space twitter accounts and the pictures of hurricanes and all are absolutely mind boggling. :)

[xDeadlyzz]

its the satelites ther upside down that big white spot on the bottom is the hurricane ... and its around the new york area so might be a few fatalities there well here cause i live in ny as if bronx werent bad enough

[Southernbella511]

Err, umm. I don't get it

why is it in the southern hemisphere?

[shanwan321]

Signs of judjement day as shown in the slide video