This
Stunning image of a
Lightning strike over Kuwait was captured last December by an astronaut aboard the International
Space Station (ISS) and released today (March 24) by NASA's Earth Observatory. The ISS recently installed a new instrument to help study the physics and composition of such bolts in detail on a daily basis.
Lightning bolts flash across Earth's atmosphere as often as 50 times per second, which adds up to about 4.3 million times a day and 1.5 billion times a year, NASA officials wrote in an image description. The scientists will use the new
Lightning imagery and data
from the ISS to try to understand what triggers
Lightning during storms in general, and what causes these rarer bursts of TGFs.
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