Footage from the International Space Station shows just how massive these natural disasters are.
Wildfires, tropical storms and earthquakes—North America has faced a lot over the past few weeks. While we endure these natural disasters here on the ground, have you ever stopped to wonder what they might look like from space?
The International Space Station orbits the Earth 16 times a day. For much of this orbit, external cameras mounted on the space station stream live footage of the planet below, capturing large scale atmospheric events, like hurricanes and wildfires. Stills from video footage from the ISS flying over Tropical Storm Hilary and wildfires in British Columbia. The footage brings home the scale of the fires.Most of us don't have time to keep an eye on this stream every day and might miss some of the dramatic flybys. But thanks to Liam Kennedy of ISS-Above, these moments have been captured and shared in bite sized chunks to social media.
On August 18, one day after Tropical Storm Hilary was upgraded to hurricane status, the ISS flew by the swirling storm. "The Space Station passed some distance to the east of Hurricane Hilary earlier today—and one of the CRONUS flight controllers at
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