Capturing a hurricane from 218 miles above the Earth
In short: Watch high-altitude footage of Hurricane Earl as it churned toward the United States. This perspective offers a rare look at the sheer scale and movement of a major storm from the International Space Station.
Captured on September 2, this video shows Hurricane Earl moving north along a track that skirted the eastern seaboard of the U.S. At the time of filming, the storm was packing winds of approximately 115 miles per hour.
The footage was recorded from an altitude of 218 statute miles by cameras mounted on the International Space Station. While satellite imagery like those from GOES-East and GOES-West provide near-real-time atmospheric data for forecasting, these station-mounted views offer a unique vantage point of the storm's structure as it moved due east of South Carolina.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: Station Cameras Provide New View of Hurricane Earl
- Also: www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov — Storm Views and Animations - NOAA / NESDIS / STAR
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