Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
space station meteor
presented by science at nasa
on august twelfth and thirteen
birth pastor a stream of debris from comet swift tuttle
source of the annual perceive meteor shower
around the world millions of people watched bunches of bright and colorful
proceeds streak across the moonlit sky
but only six people saw the shower from above
high above earth's surface circling the planet at seventeen thousand miles per
hour
the crew of the international space station watch the shower too
this is what is shooting star looks like from space pleaded expedition twenty
eight flight engineer ron carey who photographed a bright preceded streaking
beneath the space station
at the time of the shot
nineteen seventeen universal time on august thirteenth
b_i_s_ s was over china moving from the gobi desert near the mongolian border
toward beijing
this isn't the first time astronauts have seen and photographed meteors
underfoot
but this could be the most beautiful shot today
in my opinion this is the finest still image of a meteor from the international
space station or any spacecraft says bill cook director of messes media road
environment office
could catch ron
cook has analyzed the image
based on the media is apparent brightness he believes scary caught a
negative comment degree about one centimeter in diameter hitting the
atmosphere at one hundred and thirty two thousand miles per hour
be astronomical magnitude of the meteor was about negative three
very nearly a fireball says cook
other objects of interest in the photo include
the orange giant star arc terrace
brightest member of the constellation bhutto's the herdsmen
corona boreal s the northern crowd
serpents the serpent
solar panels of the international space station and assorted spacecraft docked
to the space station
a layer of green erco
erco comes from adams and molecules imparts upper atmosphere
which are excited by sunlight during the day
at night they release their energy as a green pan-am flight visible from orbit
hook is convinced
next year he says i want to watch the proceeds from orbited
for more information about things you can see from space
visit science dot nasa