Above the Eye of Hurricane Ivan
Explanation:
Ninety percent of the houses on
Grenada were
damaged.
Such is the destructive force of
Hurricane Ivan, already one of the most powerful and
destructive hurricanes on
record.
And the storm will likely make landfall in southern USA tomorrow.
Ivan is the currently the third - and largest -
hurricane set to strike the US
this hurricane season.
The swirling eye of Hurricane Ivan was
photographed
above
from the orbiting
International Space Station
(ISS) on Saturday as the storm's sustained
200 kilometer per hour winds wrecked havoc in the
Caribbean.
The bad news is that
hurricane season in the Atlantic typically lasts
until November 30, still over two months away.
The more immediate bad news is that tropical storm
Jeanne is next in line coming across the
mid-
Atlantic Ocean and could pass
Puerto Rico sometime today.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
