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As hovered over the Atlantic Ocean, the first hurricane of the was spotted from above by a camera on the International Space Station.

The SpaceTV-1 camera system, which livestreams up to 4K resolution from space, captured Hurricane Erin at 12:29 p.m. EDT Wednesday as it moved north of the Caribbean, a few hundred miles off the U.S. East Coast.

The camera is mounted on the International Space Station in low Earth orbit, according to , the company that began streaming space footage late last year.

NASA on Tuesday also released video of Hurricane Erin as seen from the ISS at a different angle.

Erin rapidly intensified over the weekend, strengthening from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane in around 24 hours, said Wednesday, sharing a 3D model of the storm. 

It has since weakened as it churned over the Atlantic, but it would bring on life-threatening surf and rip currents in several states.

were ordered for Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina ahead of the expected flooding.