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nasa new
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image
collection:
nasa
collection:
nasanaturalhazards
title:
Hurricane Ivan: Natural Hazards
description:
This photo of Hurricane Ivan was snapped as the International Space Station passed over the eye of the storm on Saturday, September 11, 2004, about 15 minutes after 23:00 GMT (7 p.m. EDT). At the time, Ivan was wobbling west off its predicted course, its eye just missing Jamaica. The storm was a powerful and dangerous Category 5 storm with sustained winds reaching to 270 kilometers per hour (165 mph) and higher gusts.

With tropical storm-force winds extending 280 kilometers from the eye, Ivan covers nearly the entire visible portion of the Earth in the above photo (22160). Portions of the ISS hardware (solar arrays) appear in the upper right corner.

The other images in this series show the eoimages.gsfc.nasa.g ov/images/imagerecor ds/13000/13858/ISS00 9E22187_1000.jpg eye of the storm (22187), a /NaturalHazards/Arch ive/Sep2004/ISS009E2 2167_1000.jpg close-up of the eye (22167), and the /NaturalHazards/Arch ive/Sep2004/ISS009E2 2192_1000.jpg entire hurricane from another angle (22192).

Astronaut photographs eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scr ipts/sseop/photo.pl? mission=ISS009&roll= E&frame=22192 ISS009-E-22192 (taken with 17 mm lens); eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scr ipts/sseop/photo.pl? mission=ISS009&roll= E&frame=22160 ISS009-E-22160 and eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scr ipts/sseop/photo.pl? mission=ISS009&roll= E&frame=22187 ISS009-E-22187 (taken with 22 mm lens) and eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scr ipts/sseop/photo.pl? mission=ISS009&roll= E&frame=22167 ISS009-E-22167 (taken with 180 mm lens) are provided by the eol.jsc.nasa.gov Earth Observations Laboratory , Johnson Space Center.

The spaceflight.nasa.gov International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC eol.jsc.nasa.gov Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth .

NASA images provided courtesy the eol.jsc.nasa.gov Earth Observations Laboratory , Johnson Space Center.
subject:
What -- International Space Station (ISS)
subject:
What -- Earth
subject:
Where -- Johnson Space Center (JSC)
subject:
Where -- Jamaica
what:
International Space Station (ISS)
what:
Earth
where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
where:
Jamaica
identifier:
Ivan_ISS_2004255
uploader:
gwilliam@archive.org
addeddate:
2011-07-25 04:14:40
publicdate:
2011-07-25 04:14:40
creator:
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
ImageUID:
file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/Ivan_ISS_20042 55/Ivan_ISS_2004255_ lrg.jpg
filename:
Ivan_ISS_2004255_lrg .jpg
date:
2004-09-11
rights:
Public Domain
source:
year:
2004
language:
eng

Hurricane Ivan: Natural Hazards