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  What Hurricane Idalia looks like from space for-phone-onlyfor-tablet-portrait-upfor-tablet-landscape-upfor-desktop-upfor-wide-desktop-up The International Space Station on Wednesday (August 30) passed over Idalia as the storm plowed into Florida's Big Bend region as an "extremely dangerous" Category 3 hurricane. EnvironmentWhat Hurricane Idalia looks like from spaceHurricane Idalia leaves Florida town in ruinsSecurity video shows Hurricane Idalia demolishing homeDeSantis says recovery efforts ongoing after Idalia How animal shelters struggle with Arizona's heatwaveHow climate change is fueling hurricanesFloridians wade through flooded streets after IdaliaNo one can deny climate crisis impact anymore -BidenTampa Bay streets flood as Idalia hits FloridaIdalia floods roads, knocks out power in FloridaIdalia slams Florida's Big Bend'This is crunch time': DeSantis on Hurricane IdaliaIntensifying Idalia churns toward FloridaISS captures views of Hurricane Idal...

  Enlarge / An antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network station near Madrid. Because astronauts are involved, the Artemis missions will come with unique requirements on the DSN. "We're not going to have bits of data. We're going to have gigabits of data," said Philip Baldwin, acting director of the network services division at JPL. "I don't want 1080p for video resolution. I want 8K video." Each of the three stations on the Deep Space Network has a 70-meter (230-foot) dish antenna, the largest antennas in the world for deep space communications. Each location also has at least three 112-foot (34-meter) antennas. The oldest of the large antennas in California entered service in 1966, then was enlarged to its 70-meter diameter in 1988. “We have reached a really critical point on the DSN’s aging infrastructure ," said Sandra Cauffman, deputy director of NASA's astrophysics division.