Hurricane Matthew Captured From The International Space Station

Mother Nature sent the Earth another natural disaster. As hurricane Matthew approaches, the International Space Station captured an image of it from the outer space.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland keeps an eye open for Hurricane Matthew. With the help of The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system (GOES), they were able to capture images of the hurricane and track the movement.

Hurricane warnings have been released in Haiti, the provinces of Cuban, Guantanamo, Holguin, Granma and Las Tunas, the southeastern Bahamas that includes Acklins, Crooked Island, Long Cay and Ragged Island and Mayaguana; in Central Bahamas including Cat Island Long Island, Exuma, Rum Cay, and San Salvador. As for the northwestern Bahamas, warnings has been sent also in places including Andros Island, Abacos, Berry Islands, Bimini, Eleuthera, Grand Bahama Island and New Providence, As reported by NASA.

The eye of the hurricane Matthew has located inland Haiti near 18.4 degrees north latitude and 74.2 degrees west longitude at 8:00 a.m. on October 4. It is 10 miles from east of Tfiburon, Haiti and 123 miles south of the eastern tip.

#HurricaneMatthew has caused serious damage in Citi Soleil. Please continue to pray for the people affected by this devastating storm. pic.twitter.com/PB6nmehlfF

— SP Haiti (@SPHaiti) October 4, 2016

Experts from the International Space Station have seen the hurricane while safely orbiting above the earth at an altitude of 250 miles using the labs on board. In line, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Hal Pierce said in a statement, "This area of strong, convective storms has been persistent over the past few days. This area of intense rainfall is due to convergence between the trade winds (prevailing easterlies) and the wind flow from the south with Matthew." He added that the devastating torrential rainfall is slowly moving to Haiti.

The first landfall was in western Haiti early morning of October 4. Hurricane Matthew carries to wind up to 145 mph (233 km/h) and a torrential downpour that forecasters said will amount to more than 2 feet (0.6 meters) of rainfall. The eye of the hurricane is expected to reach Cuba today, and the east coast of the U.S. by Friday, according to Space.com.