See Hurricane Erin from the International Space Station

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As Hurricane Erin hovered implicit the Atlantic Ocean, the archetypal hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was spotted from supra by a camera connected the International Space Station.

The SpaceTV-1 camera system, which livestreams up to 4K solution footage of Earth from space, captured Hurricane Erin astatine 12:29 p.m. EDT Wednesday arsenic it moved northbound of the Caribbean, a fewer 100 miles disconnected the U.S. East Coast.

The camera is mounted connected the International Space Station successful debased Earth orbit, according to Sen, the institution that began streaming abstraction footage precocious past year.

NASA connected Tuesday besides released video of Hurricane Erin arsenic seen from the ISS astatine a antithetic angle.

Erin rapidly intensified implicit the weekend, strengthening from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane successful astir 24 hours, NASA said Wednesday, sharing a 3D exemplary of the storm.

See Hurricane Erin successful 3D 🌀

Erin went done a play of accelerated intensification, strengthening from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane successful astir 24 hours.@NASA’s GPM Core Observatory passed implicit Hurricane Erin astatine 6:23a.m. EDT connected August 16th, portion it was intensifying. pic.twitter.com/1cjErVekCy

— NASA Earth (@NASAEarth) August 20, 2025

It has since weakened arsenic it churned implicit the Atlantic, but forecasters warned it would bring connected life-threatening surf and rip currents successful respective states.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered for Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island successful the Outer Banks of North Carolina up of the expected flooding.

Alex Sundby contributed to this report.

Kiki Intarasuwan

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