Before it was slowly pummeling the entire Eastern Seaboard as one of the largest hurricanes ever to strike the US, Hurricane Sandy was just a tiny wisp of clouds floating over Central America — or at least that’s the way it appears in this fascinating animation from NASA’s GOES-EAST satellite, which we spotted over on The Atlantic. Watch the first 10 days of this storm’s life — as seen from space and condensed into just 20 seconds — after the jump, and if you’ve got an interesting Sandy-related photo to share, email us here!
See also: this amazing time-lapse animation of Hurricane Sandy shot from 22,300 miles above the Earth.