Hurricane
Ophelia churns silently below the International Space Station (ISS) in this
view taken by one of the astronauts aboard the orbital platform.
A member of
the ISS Expedition 11 crew aboard the station framed Ophelia in a window on the
U.S.-built Destiny laboratory.
Taken on
Sept. 11, 2005, this image shows Ophelia on the ocean, when it was packing
winds at speeds of 80 miles per hour. The hurricane is now crawling along the
North Carolina coast as a Category 1 hurricane and sustained winds of 85 miles
an hour.
ISS Expedition 11 commander Sergei Krikalev and flight engineer John Phillips are due to return to Earth on Oct. 11, 2005.
-- Tariq Malik
Credit: NASA/JSC.
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