This is how a close-up of lightning beneath a cumulonimbus cloud looks like from space. An astronaut on International Space Station (ISS) captured this image while orbiting over Bolivia in 2011.
There’s also a more recent image of lightning’s white flash amidst the yellow city lights of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from 2013:
Hopefully, we are going to see more and more of these amazing images since there is a new instrument on ISS, called the Firestation, which is specifically designed to study lightning.
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