As Hurricane Melissa made landfall, a daring team of aviators flew straight into the eye of the monstrous Category 5 storm.

On Monday, a US Air Force reserve crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, nicknamed the “Hurricane Hunters,” shared videos and images of their flight inside the cyclone to collect vital weather data.

The stunning imagery depicts the almost unearthly serenity at the eye of the cyclone, as well as the epic “stadium effect” created by the towering wall of clouds that enclose it. Though this “eyewall,” as meteorologists call it, appears to be moving slowly, the ringed region is in reality brimming with the storm’s most vicious winds. Another set of breathtaking photos taken by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite look straight down into the eye a

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