There’s Calm in Your Eye
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.
