{"id":14378,"date":"2017-08-28T00:03:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-imagery-shows-harveys-path-toward-texas\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T00:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T16:03:59","slug":"orbital-imagery-shows-harveys-path-toward-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-imagery-shows-harveys-path-toward-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital imagery shows Harvey\u2019s path toward Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videos and photos from satellites and the crew aboard the International Space Station showed Hurricane Harvey bearing down on the Texas coast this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The storm made landfall Friday night near Rockport, Texas, as a strong Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. Harvey has since weakened to a tropical storm, but its slow-moving meandering course has caused catastrophic flooding across parts of Texas, including Houston, home to NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the International Space Station\u2019s control team are sheltering in place at the space center, and NASA said the James Webb Space Telescope is secured inside its test chamber, where engineers are preparing it for a launch next year.<\/p>\n<p>The first video below shows a view of Hurricane Harvey from the International Space Station on Friday, just hours before the storm reached the Texas coast. The second video is an animated satellite view from NOAA\u2019s new GOES-16 weather observatory, a new-generation sentinel launched last November with an upgraded camera that produces clearer, more rapid imagery than previous weather satellites.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjxZd7fPSVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfXgwWX1Ro4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26870\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26870\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey_tmo_2017237_lrg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey_tmo_2017237_lrg.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey_tmo_2017237_lrg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey_tmo_2017237_lrg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey_tmo_2017237_lrg-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey_tmo_2017237_lrg-678x678.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA\u2019s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image of Hurricane Harvey on Friday shortly before landfall. Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26875\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26875\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKXHrvXkAEN9dW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKXHrvXkAEN9dW.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKXHrvXkAEN9dW-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKXHrvXkAEN9dW-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKXHrvXkAEN9dW-678x451.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Jack Fischer tweeted this view of Hurricane Harvey from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA\/Jack Fischer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26874\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26874\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIEdLLFXkAE8MDR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIEdLLFXkAE8MDR.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIEdLLFXkAE8MDR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIEdLLFXkAE8MDR-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIEdLLFXkAE8MDR-678x451.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Jack Fischer tweeted this view of Hurricane Harvey from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA\/Jack Fischer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26873\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26873\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZz2_XYAEJG8N.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZz2_XYAEJG8N.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZz2_XYAEJG8N-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZz2_XYAEJG8N-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZz2_XYAEJG8N-678x451.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Randy Bresnik tweeted this view of Hurricane Harvey from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA\/Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26872\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26872\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZ2LwW0AMvW4Y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZ2LwW0AMvW4Y.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZ2LwW0AMvW4Y-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZ2LwW0AMvW4Y-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DIKZ2LwW0AMvW4Y-678x451.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Randy Bresnik tweeted this view of Hurricane Harvey from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA\/Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos and photos from satellites and the crew aboard the International Space Station showed Hurricane Harvey bearing down on the Texas coast this weekend. The storm made landfall Friday night near Rockport, Texas, as a strong Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. Harvey has since weakened to a tropical storm, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3193,3100,1545,2105,717,302,975,3204],"class_list":["post-14378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-expedition-52","tag-goes-16","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-hurricane","tag-international-space-station","tag-johnson-space-center","tag-noaa","tag-terra"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}