What Lightning Looks Like From Space

July 1, 2014

Astronaut Reid Wiseman recently shared this stunning footage of a lightning storm over Houston, as seen from the International Space Station.

Wiseman will be up there for several more months, so we can look forward to more stuff like this on his excellent Twitter feed:

Amazing lightning storms over Malaysia pic.twitter.com/JpQgNgjQrP

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 25, 2014

It’s getting good up here! pic.twitter.com/2oSP7wh9qf

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 25, 2014

It felt like I could reach out and touch it…moving like a snake through the sky. pic.twitter.com/wx7GEdvjXt

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 28, 2014

The view is better when @romeo labels everything for me! pic.twitter.com/Q6AbBQjrjG

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 23, 2014

Practicing with the 800mm long lens. Washington DC. pic.twitter.com/XdiEwXhUyn

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 22, 2014

England gleaming in the afternoon sun. pic.twitter.com/DJ7B5LfU7n

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 20, 2014

I will never tire of this view. pic.twitter.com/le1yPjeTkC

— Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) June 19, 2014

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