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This photo of Hurricane Earl's eye was taken from the HDVis camera on the underside of the Global Hawk aircraft during the morning of Thursday, Sept. 2 at 13:05 UTC (9:05 a.m. EDT). The Global Hawk captured this photo from an altitude of 60,000 ft. (about 11.4 miles). The Global Hawk is one of three aircraft involved in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment. GRIP a NASA Earth science field experiment from August 15-September 30, 2010 to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. Credit: NASA/NOAA

The TRMM satellite observed the high rates (red) rain was falling within Earl, in some areas more than 2 inches per hour.In this image an Infrared GOES-EAST satellite image captured at close to the same time was warped to match the TRMM satellite image in order to show parts of EARL not seen by TRMM. Credit: NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

NASA: Why do we still find rocks from the Archean, one of the earliest geological eons on Earth dating from about 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago? This is an apt question as our planet is one of the most dynamic in the solar system. Earth’s crust has been constantly destroyed and created throughout its 4.5-billion-year history.  

NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has demonstrated operational readiness of its subsystems, spacecraft instruments and communications services. GOES-15 is the third and final spacecraft in the GOES N-P Series of geostationary environmental weather satellites.

Photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station, this is an oblique view of the eye (center) of Hurricane Earl (at this time a category 4 but later downgraded to a category 3), centered just north of the Virgin Islands near 19.3 north latitude and 64.7 west longitude packing 115-kilometer winds. The photo was taken with a digital still camera using a 50mm lens. high res (0.8 M) low res (40 K)

NASA: From an altitude of 218 miles, the International Space Station flies over Hurricane Earl as it churns as a Category 4 storm northeast of Puerto Rico near the northern Antilles islands. The station's Progress 37 cargo craft and the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft are in the foreground.

Danielle and Earl are both spinning around in the Atlantic Ocean and NASA's Terra satellite captured one image of both storms at the same time, one in the Caribbean and the other approaching the North Atlantic Ocean. Both are expected to impact land.