Astronaut tweets video of lightning storm from space
A
light show like no other – this is lightning striking
Earth from space. The dazzling footage was
captured by British astronaut Tim Peake posted on Twitter of lightning
storms from the International Space Station. He says it was recorded as he flew
from North Africa over Turkey towards Russia.Light travels at
300,000 kilometres per second. This means that lightning is visible when it strikes. However, sound travels
much slower. If you hear the thunder 15 seconds
after you see the lightning, the lightning is around 4.8 kilometres away.Forty-three-year-old Peak, who's a former army major, blasted off to the
ISS as part of a six-month mission for the European Space Agency in December
and recently became the first astronaut representing Britain to carry out a
space walk.The astronaut has 400,000 followers on Twitter.This isn't the first
time we've heard from Tim Peake as he soars around
our planet; last night, he tweeted a picture of the waxing moon
to his over 400,000 followers.And for him, this is just another truly out
of this world experience.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2016/feb/09/lightning-storms-from-space-timelapse-video
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