Isaac From Space: NASA's Night Satellite Image Shows Storm Before Becoming Hurricane

NASA's Suomi-NPP satellite captured this haunting image from space of Tropical Storm Isaac just after midnight on Tuesday, hours before the storm was upgraded to a category 1 hurricane.

Hurricane Isaac, downgraded to Tropical Storm Isaac this afternoon, continues to wreak havoc as it moves inland. At least 600,000 Louisiana households and businesses are already without power, the Associated Press reports, and gusts of wind could later reach up to 100 miles per hour.

According to the Associated Press, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said that up to 40 people may need to be rescued in Plaquemines Parish, southeast of New Orleans. The parish is outside of the city's robust new levees that were constructed after Katrina.

LOOK: Night Image Of Tropical Storm Isaac From Space

Check out a video of Hurricane Isaac from space below:

Comments

[Savage Saint Roger]

11:55 AM on 09/01/2012

Fascinating! I love these NASA photos! There is always mother nature to bring us back into a balanced life because the one thing we will never get too big for is her.

[my2pesos]

03:36 AM on 08/30/2012

droughts are worse

[Iv Eligio]

03:26 AM on 08/30/2012

I know it was disastrous but I can't help but to be amazed and in awe.

[Counterglow]

01:14 AM on 08/30/2012

Is it just me, or does it look an awful lot like Mother Nature just scribbled a huge, upward-to-the-right "El Cocko" on the planet?

[The Accountant]

11:13 PM on 08/29/2012

Amazing satellite photos. My dad, a meteorologist, always said there was nothing more powerful and dynamic on this earth than the weather and we must all learn to respect it.

[HazardRadio]

10:51 PM on 08/29/2012

I think my kids left the light on.

[kagu632418]

08:53 PM on 08/29/2012

The power of Nature is astounding and frightening. My pryaers go out to the people in he affected areas. ... And the Republican convention goes on as if nothing is happen.. Its like Dejavu when bush was around ...

[MaxxFoxx]

09:31 PM on 08/29/2012

Yeah I know isn't it awful? Kind of like the Demoncratic Convention of 1968 when people were being beaten in the streets, huh? Just think! The Republicans will be blaming Obama for all of their failures for the next four years.

[wolvespj]

10:57 PM on 08/29/2012

and what would you have them do???

[The Accountant]

11:16 PM on 08/29/2012

They could have put on their golashes and raincoats and formed a big rescue mission, perhaps using Romney's yacht....showing us that no matter what everybody says about them, they do in fact have an ounce of compassion. Just an idea.

[loves to fish]

12:04 AM on 08/30/2012

How about a moment of silence, or just the acknowledgment of what these people are experiencing!

[joportja5]

07:19 PM on 08/29/2012

We have to have hurricanes - that is nature's way of distributing oxygen and a hundred other things that our planet HAS to have in order to exist. Without hurricanes we would all die. Don't blame the hurricanes - they have always been here. People move into nature's paths - it's their fault, not the hurricanes. If you live in the path of hurricanes and tornadoes, then you pay the price - your decision.

[AJH]

08:04 PM on 08/29/2012

Don't blame the people either. They are simply taking advant6age of the massive benefits and efficiencies gained by being near water which outweight the economic negatives of the occasional hurricane.

Show me a landlocked people and nation and I'll show you a poor one.

[Nvestor]

09:14 PM on 08/29/2012

Okay, I'll "take-the-bait", ...
Switzerland.

[Nvestor]

09:26 PM on 08/29/2012

Oh, I almost forgot, ...
Luxembourg (actually, the "richest nation in the world, per GNI):
Gross National Income Per Capita: $58,810
Literacy Rate: 99%
Unemployment Rate: 4.8%
This tiny, landlocked nation about the size of Rhode Island is bordered by France, Germany, and Belgium. Luxembourg's location near major powers on the continent, along with its educational system, which requires fluency in French and German, has made it one of Europe's premier investment centers. The Duke of Luxembourg plans to provide the country with ultra-high bandwidth cable service within the next three years, which will foster development of a sophisticated digital economy.

[kagu632418]

08:53 PM on 08/29/2012

Oh please I recommend that you double check your source.

[loves to fish]

12:11 AM on 08/30/2012

Righties don't believe in facts!

[tph370]

06:37 PM on 08/29/2012

Evidently that's the same view god has; and again, he did nothing, as he did during Katrina, school shootings, 9/11 terrorists atackes, yes, he did nothing to help.

So when are people going stop praying to the emptiness in space, and begin to connect more with each other on a human level?

[grizznbuck]

06:49 PM on 08/29/2012

It would be nice if it happened in my life time, but I doubt that it will.

[tph370]

07:49 PM on 08/30/2012

I regretably agree!

[shmoonie]

11:01 PM on 09/01/2012

We have come a long way though. Being an atheist doesn't get you shot on sight anymore. But there are rumors that stoning is making a comeback.

[tstuff4me]

06:52 PM on 08/29/2012

Very sad to read this. It's just to bad you don't even know how much God loves you. Find someone quick to talk to about God before your heart is
harden.

[tph370]

08:20 PM on 08/30/2012

Many, many people use the word "God" and even study the same book, the Bible; yet, through many generations people continue to "break off" to start another denomination.

Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Church of Christ, Church of God, Church of Jesus Christ, Pentecostals, Amish, Universalism, Unitarians, Quakers, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (The Mormons), Jehovah's Witnesses, Episcopalian, Catholics, Gnostic or Esoteric Christianity, and many more; there're nearly 100,000 different denominations of Christianity.

Christianity is so splintered!

I wonder if the Muslim religion is as confused as Christians.

I hope your heart can loosen up, not be so hardened, to the idea of how crazy the "God word" separates mankind much more than brings us together.

[sindfetish]

06:24 PM on 08/29/2012

It sort of looks like a HUGE TOILET flushing...right in the bowl on the Republican National Convention. Appropriate huh? Yes Batman it is.

[wdc39]

07:15 PM on 08/29/2012

Actually, it skirted around Tampa. Divine intervention? Probably gonna turn east and head for Charlotte.

[HoosierInMaryland]

10:54 PM on 08/29/2012

Actually, it will turn North, then gradually turn East over Illinois and Northern Indiana, then go East across Ohio. Then the predictions are showing it going ESE (Philly and NYC in the bull's eye, with Baltimore and DC on the Southern fringe per current predictions.

Charlotte? About 360 miles SW of Baltimore; about 420 miles almost due South of Cleveland, Ohio.

By the way, if TS Isaac turns due East by tomorrow night, it's path will be closer to Tampa than Charlotte.

As to the skirting around Tampa? The winds pushed water up a gently sloping shelf on the Eastern side of the Gulf, and the water level in Tampa was a lot higher than normal.

[loves to fish]

12:15 AM on 08/30/2012

I thought it looked a bit embryonic! Interesting that it looked like an ultra sound to me!

[makhai329]

06:24 PM on 08/29/2012

amazing.

[FredSanders]

05:57 PM on 08/29/2012

The size of this thing and it's slowness makes it more than it appears on radar screens.
It is the size of Mississippi!

[thetruckinglife]

05:11 PM on 08/29/2012

wow that is way cool.almost like your looking at it first hand floating in space.