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Hurricane Gordon
Photo: Space shuttle view of Hurricane Gordon
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Crew members on the space shuttle Atlantis captured this view of Hurricane Gordon in September 2006. Though the storm appears benign from above, its sustained winds howled at some 80 miles an hour (130 kilometers an hour).
Photograph courtesy NASA

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