Space Weather: "Aurora with chance of meatballs" | International Space Station

Space Weather: "Aurora with chance of meatballs" | International Space Station

Expedition 75 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Anil Menon: "Current space weather report: Aurora with chance of meatballs. (KP 3.0 / iPhone photo / mostly watched it in awe with crew-12 @ 11:50 UTC)"

This is Anil Menon's first spaceflight mission after he was selected as part of NASA’s 2021 astronaut class.

Also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), auroras are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate displays of an intricate dance of particles and magnetism between the Sun and Earth called space weather. When energetic particles from space collide with atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, they can cause the colorful glow that we call auroras.

Learn more about auroras: 
https://science.nasa.gov/sun/auroras/

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Expedition 75 Crew
Station Commander: Jessica Meir
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jack Hathaway, Anil Menon

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.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/A. Menon
Date: Aug. 8, 2026

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