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| ISS009-E-22832 (15 September 2004) -- Except for part of
the International Space Station in the foreground, Hurricane Ivan fills
this image over the northern Gulf of Mexico as the storm approached landfall
on the Alabama coast Wednesday afternoon (21:59:36 GMT, Sept. 15). Ivan
was reported to have sustained winds of 135 mph. The photo was taken by
astronaut Edward M. (Mike) aboard the research outpost from an altitude
of about 230 miles. Fincke, the NASA ISS Science Officer, and Commander
Gennady Padalka are nearing the end of a six-month mission aboard the Station.
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