--- description: A satellite image captured by NASA on Friday night showed the size of the winter storm that continued to batter the East Coast on Saturday title: See What the Winter Storm Looks Like from Space image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb3ba318ec4335a6/69887a59e20a87c3c2a8f316/unitedstates-a2016022-1855-1500m.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [weather](/tag/weather/) ## weather Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See What the Winter Storm Looks Like from Space  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 23, 2016 6:17 PM CUT  NASA/NOAA/Goddard Rapid Response Team  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 23, 2016 6:17 PM CUT A [satellite image](http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-sees-major-winter-storm-headed-for-eastern-us "undefined") captured by NASA on Friday night showed the size of the [winter storm that continued to batter the East Coast](http://time.com/4191459/jonas-blizzard-snow-storm-arrives-east-coast/?xid=homepage "undefined") on Saturday. The photo shows the storm’s white clouds stretching from New England to Florida. [Another image](http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-sees-major-winter-storm-headed-for-eastern-us "undefined") captured on Saturday showed the movement of the storm, as it shifted North, where Washington D.C. and New York City were under blizzard warnings. American astronaut Scott Kelly also [posted pictures to Twitter](https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/690850325390049280 "undefined") of the snow storm, [tracking its movement](https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/690865242327351296 "undefined") from the International Space Station. > [](https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/690850325390049280) [**_Watch Live:_** _Astronauts Return to Earth After a Year in Space_](http://time.com/4240847/scott-kelly-astronaut-space-return-earth-watch-live-stream-online/ "undefined") > [](https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/690865242327351296) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4191536/nasa-satellite-image-winter-storm-east-coast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4191536/nasa-satellite-image-winter-storm-east-coast/"},"headline":"See What the Winter Storm Looks Like from Space","datePublished":"2016-01-23T18:17:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:23:16.027Z","description":"It's as bad as it looks","url":"https://time.com/4191536/nasa-satellite-image-winter-storm-east-coast/","keywords":["weather","A Year In Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb3ba318ec4335a6/69887a59e20a87c3c2a8f316/unitedstates-a2016022-1855-1500m.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb3ba318ec4335a6/69887a59e20a87c3c2a8f316/unitedstates-a2016022-1855-1500m.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"unitedstates.a2016022.1855.1500m","caption":"","creditText":"NASA/NOAA/Goddard Rapid Response Team","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4191536/nasa-satellite-image-winter-storm-east-coast/","name":"See What the Winter Storm Looks Like from Space"}}]}] ```