by MarkBour » Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:47 pm
Cool, cool picture! Worth a replay, I guess. I find the arc at the top of the image interesting, showing a green layer of upper atmosphere. Also, I see stars above that ... I don't usually see stars in these images.
It would be nice to get a super high-speed camera apparatus on the ISS, catch a lightning event at a low angle, like the present image, only even more acute, and see the sequence in high temporal resolution from this vantage point. Actually, I suppose this could be accomplished from a plane just as well. But I'm thinking of an angle where you can see both above and below the cloud that the lightning occurred in.
Cool, cool picture! Worth a replay, I guess. I find the arc at the top of the image interesting, showing a green layer of upper atmosphere. Also, I see stars above that ... I don't usually see stars in these images.
It would be nice to get a super high-speed camera apparatus on the ISS, catch a lightning event at a low angle, like the present image, only even more acute, and see the sequence in high temporal resolution from this vantage point. Actually, I suppose this could be accomplished from a plane just as well. But I'm thinking of an angle where you can see both above and below the cloud that the lightning occurred in.