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Juno's Radiation Monitoring Investigation used the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) star camera to collect this...
iss073e0080280 (May 15, 2025) --- This nebula-like formation is actually lightning illuminating the clouds during a...
NASA Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B. Workers prep the lightning suppression system candlestick for new...
iss073e0080625 (May 15, 2025) --- This nebula-like formation is actually lightning illuminating the clouds during a...
iss073e0080327 (May 15, 2025) --- This nebula-like formation is actually lightning illuminating the clouds during a...
iss073e0081060 (May 15, 2025) --- This nebula-like formation is actually lightning illuminating the clouds during a...
The Altus II remotely piloted aircraft carried a variety of specialized instruments and cameras during a lightning...
During a briefing Saturday afternoon, LeRoy Cain announced the scrub of the STS-115 launch for Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006...
iss073e0203588 (May 19, 2025) --- Lightning (upper left) illuminates the clouds and an atmospheric glow blankets...
A large crawler crane arrives at the turn basin at the Launch Complex 39 Area on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The...
A large crawler crane arrives at the turn basin at the Launch Complex 39 Area on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The...
A large crawler crane traveling long one of the crawlerway tracks makes the turn toward Launch Pad 39B. The crane...
A large crawler crane moves past the Vehicle Assembly Building on its way to Launch Pad 39B. The crane with its...
A large crawler crane travels along one of the crawlerway tracks on its way to Launch Pad 39B. The crane with its...
A large crawler crane begins moving away from the turn basin at the Launch Complex 39 Area on NASA's Kennedy Space...
A large crawler crane begins moving away from the turn basin at the Launch Complex 39 Area on NASA's Kennedy Space...
The remotely piloted Altus II aircraft probed lightning development with a variety of specialized instruments and...
iss073e0380959 (June 18, 2025) --- Lightning illuminates the cloud tops of Category 1 Hurricane Erick as it stormed...
Apollo 12 launched from Cape Kennedy on Nov. 14, 1969, into a cloudy, rain-swept sky. Launch controllers lost...
S89-41564 (25 July 1971) --- Lightning streaks through the sky around the Apollo 15 stack of hardware prior to the...
Looking ever so much like an alien spacecraft, the Altus II remotely piloted aircraft shows off some of the...
iss073e0257211 (June 17, 2025) --- The city lights of Southeast Asia and lightning storms streak below the...
iss073e0817052 (Sept. 27, 2025) --- Warm, diffuse city lights and bright lightning storms illuminate the cloudy...
iss073e0300048 (June 15, 2025) --- Lightning (top center) is captured striking and illuminating the clouds during a...