NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy has taken beautiful photos of Hurricane Genevieve from his vantage point on the International Space Station.
Cassidy, the commander of the space station, tweeted the images on Wednesday.
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NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy captured the images from the International Space Station.
(Chris Cassidy / NASA)
Hurricane Genevieve lost some of its punch when it passed the southern end of the Mexican Baja California Peninsula on Thursday, though it still devastated the tourist area with hurricane force winds and heavy rain.
Genevieve was a powerful Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday with winds of 130 mph, but weakened to Category 1 force as it pushed past the Los Cabos region, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Hurricane Genevieve photographed from space. (Chris Cassidy / NASA)
A U.S. Navy Captain, Cassidy spent 11 years as a member of the Navy SEALs Team earlier in his career. He was elected in May 2004 as a NASA astronaut.
Cassidy recently said goodbye to his fellow NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in their historic mission to the ISS. Hurley and Behnken crashed into the Gulf of Mexico in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship on August 2.
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The images were tweeted by Chris Cassidy on August 19 (Chris Cassidy / NASA)
The mission marked the first time astronauts have been launched since US soil since the space shuttle’s final flight in 2011.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers
