NASA Photo of Earth Captures Hurricane Irene from Space

As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, NASA has published a satellite photograph of Earth to its Flickr stream in which the storm is clearly visible. The storm has a diameter of 510 miles — roughly 1/3 the length of the East Coast — so it could probably be seen very clearly from someone standing on the moon. President Obama is warning Americans that the hurricane could be of “historic proportions”.

Full Disk Image of Earth Captured August 26, 2011 (via Mashable)

Michael Zhang · Aug 26, 2011

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