Lightning over Pacific Ocean: Hurricane Erick | International Space Station

Lightning over Pacific Ocean: Hurricane Erick | International Space Station

Lightning illuminates the cloud tops of Category 1 Hurricane Erick as it stormed across the Pacific Ocean south of the Mexican state of Chiapas at approximately 3:42 a.m. local time on June 20, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 258 miles above. Erick later became the first major hurricane–Category 3 or greater–on record to hit Mexico before July.

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: JAXA Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center 
Capture Date: June 20, 2025

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