NASA Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument captured this image of Hurricane Earl Aug. 30, 2010. At this time, Hurricane Earl was a Category 3 storm. The hurricane eye is just visible on the right edge of the MISR image swath.

ISS024-E-012949 (30 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 30 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-012946 (30 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 30 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-012948 (30 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 30 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-012950 (30 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 30 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-012951 (30 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 30 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

The eye of Hurricane Earl in the Atlantic Ocean is seen from NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. This flight through the eyewall caught Earl just as it was intensifying from a Category 2 to a Category 4 hurricane. The flights are part of the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment, a NASA Earth science field experiment being conducted to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. (NASA/Jane Peterson)

ISS024-E-012895 (30 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 30 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-012896 (30 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 30 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-012920 (30 Aug. 2010) --- Photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station, this is an oblique view of the eye (just above center frame) of Hurricane Earl (at this time a category 4 but later downgraded to a category 3), centered just north of the Virgin Islands near 19.3 north latitude and 64.7 west longitude packing 115-kilometer winds. The photo was taken with a digital still camera using a 35mm lens.

ISS024-E-012815 (30 Aug. 2010) --– Photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station, this is an oblique view that shows the eye (just left of center) of Hurricane Earl (at this time a category 4 but later downgraded to a category 3), centered just north of the Virgin Islands near 19.3 north latitude and 64.7 west longitude packing 115-kilometer winds. A Russian Soyuz vehicle is docked to the station (foreground). The photo was taken with a digital still camera using a 55mm lens.

ISS024-E-012947 (30 Aug. 2010) --– Photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station, this is an oblique view of the eye (center) of Hurricane Earl (at this time a category 4 but later downgraded to a category 3), centered just north of the Virgin Islands near 19.3 north latitude and 64.7 west longitude packing 115-kilometer winds. The photo was taken with a digital still camera using a 50mm lens.

ISS024-E-012894 (30 Aug. 2010) --? Photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station, this is an oblique view that shows the eye (just above center) of Hurricane Earl (at this time a category 4 but later downgraded to a category 3), centered just north of the Virgin Islands near 19.3 north latitude and 64.7 west longitude packing 115-kilometer winds. A Russian Soyuz vehicle is docked to the station (foreground). The photo was taken with a digital still camera using a 22mm lens.

ISS024-E-012792 (28 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 28 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-012796 (29 Aug. 2010) --- Hurricane Earl is featured in this Aug. 29 image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station.

ISS024-E-013979 (7 Sept. 2010) --- A high-oblique view of the extra-tropical unnamed cyclone that merged with Hurricane Earl is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. At the time the photo was taken, the ISS was over the Labrador Sea, southwest of Greenland.

ISS024-E-013975 (7 Sept. 2010) --- A high-oblique view of the extra-tropical unnamed cyclone that merged with Hurricane Earl is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. At the time the photo was taken, the ISS was over the Labrador Sea, southwest of Greenland.