Check out these space images:

A Shooting Star in Space (NASA, International Space Station, 08/13/11)

Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 28 flight engineer, tweeted this image from the International Space Station on Aug. 14 with the following caption: "What a ‘Shooting Star’ looks like from space, taken yesterday during Perseid Meteor Shower." The image was photographed from the orbiting complex on Aug. 13 when it was over an area of China approximately 400 kilometers to the northwest of Beijing. The rare photo opportunity came as no surprise since the Perseid Meteor Shower occurs every year in August. The meteors are particles that originate from the comet Swift-Tuttle along its orbital path; the comet’s orbit is close enough for these particles to be swept up by the Earth’s gravitational field each year. Green and dim yellow airglow appears as thin layers visible above the limb of the Earth, extending from image left to upper image right. Atoms and molecules above 50 kilometers in the atmosphere are excited by sunlight during the day, and then release this energy at night producing primarily green light observable from orbit. The sun is low on the horizon as it appears near part of one of the station’s solar panel arrays at image upper right.

Image credit: NASA

Original image:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-28/html/…

More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html

There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/

More images of fireballs and meteors can be seen in our "Meteor Showers!" photoset:
www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157607380035209/

Typhoon Neoguri (NASA, International Space Station, 07/07/14)

Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed a series of images of Typhoon Neoguri in the vicinity of Japan on July 7, 2014. This near-vertical 10.5 focal length view showing the eye on left side of the visible area was photographed at 21:54:04 GMT. A docked Russian spacecraft is partially visible in upper left.

Image credit: NASA

Original image:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/14490286237/in/set-721…

View the Typhoon Neoguri album:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/sets/72157645643701363/

More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html

Crew Earth Observations on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/sets/72157621443555137/

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