NA$A was good enough to justify their budget by offering this full color photo of Hurricane Isabel from space.

(Photo by NASA, click to supersize)

In the accompanying story, scientists note some interesting details about the photo.

"The colors are natural," says Gary Jedlovec, a climate scientist at the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, AL. "This is what an astronaut would see looking down on the hurricane from orbit."

Really? I had no idea you could see the state borders from space. How much taxpayer money was spent chalking out those lines?