As residents on the Gulf Coast brace for the onset of Hurricane Isaac, NASA has posted a new video of the hurricane captured today from an external camera aboard the International Space Station.The video shows the hurricane, then at a category 1 strength, recently downgraded to a tropical storm, slowly rotating into view as the station orbits the Earth at a speed of over 17,000 miles per hour some 250 miles overhead.
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