Lightning Storms over Africa & West Asia | International Space Station

Lightning Storms over Africa & West Asia | International Space Station

Expedition 74 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir: "In this timelapse of the night sky, you can see lightning storms (beginning and end), and one of my favorite night scenes—as we cross over Africa from west to east, it is very dimly lit until the snaking spectacle of light along the Nile appears (worth the wait), erupting into the brilliance of Cairo and the river delta. It’s a perfect illustration of the vitality of our planet’s water sources and how our human cultures have developed along them."

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Expedition 74 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Sergei Mikaev

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Chris Williams

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.

Credits: NASA/JSC/J. Meir
Duration: 1 minute, 25 seconds
Release Date: May 29, 2026

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