Lightning Storm near Milan, Italy | International Space Station

Lightning Storm near Milan, Italy | International Space Station

Expedition 73 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers: "Hello Milan! If you guys haven’t seen the lightning sequence Anne McClain posted a couple weeks ago, you should go check it out! Shots like these take quite a bit of planning and timing. This video is a sequence of still pictures taken at 120 frames per second."

"We have such a unique view of lightning up here and we’ve been trying to capture as much as possible! For these pictures, I got lucky that Milan was close by. It provides a gauge for just how big some of these storms and lightning flashes can be."

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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

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Image Credit: NASA/JSC/Nichole Ayers

Duration: 7 seconds
Release Date: July 18, 2025

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