Hurricane Katia From Space

September 6, 2011 | The International Space Station captured this footage of Category 3 Hurricane Katia traveling northwest across the Atlantic, north of Puerto Rico on September 6. Now that the National Weather Service expects the hurricane to miss the U.S. coast, we can appreciate how pretty it is. More

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