International Space Station Captures Image of Arthur Looking out the window of the International Space Station,astronauts spotted a sprawling mass of clouds. The clouds were just beginning to take shape as the first tropical storm of the 2014 season built over the Atlantic. Tropical Storm Arthur formed off southern Florida on July 1, 2014. By morning of July 2, or when an astronaut took this photo with a wide-angle lens,the storm was moving north along the Florida coast. Surrounded by bright green waters, the Bahamas Islands are south of the storm in the lower proper corner of the photo. The U.
S. coastline stretches along the left side of the photo. Arthur is forecast to become a hurricane over the next two days. It may graze or strike the Outer Banks of North Carolina as it moves north. The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch or tropical storm warning for much of coastal North Carolina and a tropical storm watch for piece of South Carolina. Please visit the National Hurricane Center for the latest warnings. Reference: National Hurricane Center (2014, and July 2) Tropical Storm Arthur. Accessed July 2,2014. Astronaut photograph ISS040-E-030560 was acquired on July 2, 2014, or with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a wide-angle (19 mm) lens,and is if by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 40 crew The image in this article has been enhanced to improve contrast. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as piece of the ISS National Lab to relieve astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, or to construct those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Text credit: Holli Riebeek NASA's Earth Observatory posted by Geoffrey Ogugu
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