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Horrifying Footage Shows A NASA Astronaut Capturing A Hurricane From Orbit
An astronaut has published an unsettling video of what a cyclone actually looks like from orbit.
Hurricane Milton, which was declared a category five hurricane Friday night, is expected to make landfall on the US coast of Florida.
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale: ‘catastrophic devastation will ensue’ with winds of 157 mph or more. The National Weather Service predicts that the area will become uninhabitable in the near future due to the destruction of several homes and power disruptions that will likely endure for weeks to months.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, October 7, the mayor of Tampa Bay, a community on Florida’s west coast, acknowledged the gravity of the situation.
Mayor Jane Castor explained: “This is the real deal here with Milton. If you want to take on Mother Nature, she wins 100 percent of the time.”
She then sarcastically warned the locals that “you are going to die” if they didn’t leave.
Some vacationers have been stranded in the Sunshine State, scrounging for necessities as they await the hurricane, which is expected to be the biggest storm to hit the area in more than a century.
Some individuals are also watching the storm develop, but they are located 250 miles above us.
Matthew Dominick, a US Navy test pilot and NASA pilot, posted terrifying video of the approaching natural disaster taken from SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour, which is connected to the ISS, forcing astronauts on board the ISS to watch the hurricane form from above in space.
The ISS, which orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes, is shown in the video flying over the enormous hurricane at an average speed of about 17,500 mph.
The massive white hurricane, which is expected to make landfall on the state’s Central Gulf coast tonight (9 October), looks like something from a dystopian movie as it moves toward the main land.
The footage captured was a time lapse though, as the astronaut wrote in his post: “Timelapse flying by Hurricane Milton about 2 hours ago.”
“1/6400 sec exposure, 14mm, ISO 500, 0.5 sec interval, 30fps.”
Social media users shared what they thought of the chilling footage in the comments, as one wrote: “This is like something out of The Day After Tomorrow,” referencing the 2004 sci-fi dystopian flick.
Another pointed out: “Looks so calm from a distance.”
A third said, “My God… awe-inspiring and frightening at the same time.”
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