italian esa astronaut samantha cristoforetti and us astronaut terry virts have snapped images of a typhoon .
they took them from the iss while orbiting earth at a height of 255 miles -lrb- 410 km -rrb- .
super typhoon maysak was a top-rated category 5 typhoon , and will make landfall in the philippines this weekend .
as it moved over the pacific ocean , the storm generated winds of more than 140mph -lrb- 225km/h -rrb- .