Hurricane Sam

The category-4 storm spun over the Atlantic Ocean, accompanied by Tropical Storm Victor and Saharan dust to the southeast.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from DSCOVR EPIC and an astronaut photograph taken by a member of the Expedition 65 crew. Astronaut photograph ISS065-E-432557 was acquired on September 29, 2021, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a focal length of 31 millimeters. It is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published October 1, 2021
Data acquired September 30, 2021

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DSCOVR > EPIC

ISS > Digital Camera

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Astronaut Photography