The eye of Category Four Hurricane Dean is seen
in close-up from space, looking here more like a pile of dirty snow than a
monstrous, raging storm.
Crewmembers on the Space Shuttle Endeavour
captured this image of Hurricane Dean in the Caribbean, around Noon CDT on
August 18, 2007.
At the time the shuttle and International
Space Station passed overhead, the Category Four storm was moving in a westerly
direction at 17 mph nearing the island of Jamaica possessing sustained winds of
150 mph.
At the time of this writing, Monday morning,
August 20, Dean has passed Jamaica, and is headed for Mexico's Yucatan
peninsula. All of Belize is under a hurricane warning.
NASA decided to bring the shuttle Endeavour
down from Space on Tuesday, one
day earlier than planned, to avoid any effects of Dean.
--NASA and SPACE.com Staff
Credit: NASA
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