NASA Releases Beautiful Photographs of Lightning Taken from the ISS
If it ever was a secret, it sure isn’t anymore: we LOVE photos from space. And judging by the response we typically get to sharing them, so do you, which is why we were so excited when we stumbled across these magnificent images of lightning NASA released just a couple of days ago.
The ‘Firestation’ instruments, as they’re being called, have nothing to do with photography, so we won’t cover them here (read all about them on the Earth Observatory website if you’re interested). We’re glad they were installed though, because it gives us an excuse to share these photos.
For the gear heads out there, both images were taken with a Nikon D3s. The first was shot with an 85mm lens, and shows a lightning strike between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The second was shot with a 180mm lens, and captures a lightning flash inside a thunderhead above Bolivia.
For more info or if you’d like to download either of these images in high-res, head over to the Earth Observatory website by clicking here.
Image credits: Photographs courtesy of NASA
