ISS: Hurricane Dorian captured from space as it heads to US mainland

Cameras aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured the massive Hurricane Dorian as it headed towards the United States on Sunday.

The enormous scale of the storm can be seen as the the space station continues its orbit around the earth.

Dorian exceeded previous estimations and became a category 5 storm, and, according to NASA, is carrying the strongest winds in recorded history in the north-western Bahamas.