Monstrous Hurricane Milton captured in 4K video by new Sen cameras on ISS

By Josh Dinner published 9 hours ago

These videos are blowing our minds.



The bulbous blue orb of Earth as seen from above. On its face, on the left, a giant white swirl of this cloud, a hurricane. On the bottom right, within the sliver of black space beneath the Earth, a white spacecraft is partially seen.
A view of hurricane Milton taken by Sen's 4k cameras aboard the International Space Station. (Image credit: Sen)
The International Space Station has been getting new equipment in the form of some 4K cameras, and the views they captured of Hurricane Milton are breathtaking.

A SpaceX cargo launch to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this year, the CRS-30 mission, included a payload called SpaceTV-1 — a set of 4K cameras from the space video streaming company Sen to be fastened to the station's exterior. Now that the cameras have been attached to the European Space Agency's Columbus module and pointed toward Earth, they are sending back some incredible views.

Sen's goal is to have 4K livestream feeds from space available for free across the globe. "Sen uses its own satellites and hosted cameras in space to gather news and information about what’s happening on Earth and in space," the company's website states. Sen has been testing the new ISS cameras' capabilities over the past several months as it ramps up its business model, and its most recent video shows the headline-grabbing Hurricane Milton, which made landfall in Florida overnight on Wednesday (Oct. 9).

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The video shows Milton as the ISS passed over the Gulf of Mexico, the storm nearly stretching across the entire visible portion of the Earth below. The stunning footage gives "additional live views to those provided by NASA's High Definition video cameras already on the space station," a Sen press release says.



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