Hurricane Maria seen swirling from space in new video
The only real way to understand the scale of a Category 5 hurricane like Maria on Earth is to see it from space.
A new video taken by onboard cameras on the International Space Station shows the scale of Hurricane Maria like nothing else.
The 45-second video clip shows off the Category 5 storm's swirling clouds and pinhole eye in the Caribbean on September 19.
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Hurricane Maria left devastation in its wake on the small island of Dominica early Tuesday.
The storm is now forecast to pass over Puerto Rico in what could be the most devastating hurricane to impact the island in recorded history.
The U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are already being buffeted by rain from Maria, as the storm makes its way closer to the islands.
Hurricane Maria is just the most recent in a seemingly endless string of powerful hurricanes spawned in the Atlantic Ocean this summer.
Hurricane Harvey brought extreme, flooding rains to Texas, and Irma followed on its heels, impacting some of the areas that are now being slammed by Hurricane Maria.
Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all things outer space. She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight and watched rockets launch to space from places around the United States. Miriam received her Master's degree in science, health and environmental reporting from New York University in 2012, and she originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee. Follow Miriam on Twitter at @mirikramer.
