An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a peculiar image of Earth from space that contains two bizarre blue blobs of light glimmering in our planet's atmosphere.
from space that contains two bizarre blue blobs of light glimmering in our planet's atmosphere.
The dazzling pair may look otherworldly. But in reality, they are the result of two unrelated natural phenomena that just happened to occur at the same time. The image was captured last year by an unnamed member of the Expedition 66 crew as the ISS passed over the South China Sea. The photo was released online October 9 byThis photo taken from the ISS above the South China Sea on 30 October 2021 shows a pair of unrelated bright blue blobs in Earth's atmosphere. strike somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand.
Lightning strikes are typically hard to see from the ISS, as they're usually covered by clouds. But this particular strike occurred next to a large, circular gap in the top of the clouds, which caused the lightning to illuminate the surrounding walls of the cloudy caldera-like structure, creating a striking luminous ring.
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