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iss073e0816985 (Sept. 27, 2025) --- Bright lightning storms illuminate the cloudy landscape of western Africa in...
The Yolla Bolly Complex Wildland Fire was started on June 21, 2008 by a lightning strike. This image was acquired by...
A NASA team studying the causes of electrical storms and their effects on our home planet achieved a milestone on...
Lightning strikes in the distance as the Space Shuttle Discovery receives post-flight processing in the Mate-Demate...
Large lightning-induced fires were active in Alaska and the Yukon Territory from mid-June to mid-July, 2004 as seen...
Lightning strikes have sparked more than a thousand fires in northern California. Cape Mendocino is at the center of...
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science...
A NASA team studying the causes of electrical storms and their effects on our home planet achieved a milestone on...
A NASA team studying the causes of electrical storms and their effects on our home planet achieved a milestone on...
A NASA team studying the causes of electrical storms and their effects on our home planet achieved a milestone on...
Day and night side narrow angle images taken on January 1, 2001 illustrating storms visible on the day side which...
NASA Terra spacecraft captured this image of the Twitchell Canyon fire, a lightning-caused blaze burning in Utah,...
This set of images from NASA Cassini spacecraft shows cloud patterns in a band around Saturn before a monstrous...
This set of images from NASA Cassini mission shows the evolution of a massive thunder-and-lightning storm that...
Saturn storms observed by NASA Voyager, Aug. 5, 2004. Voyager 1 and 2 observed radio signals from lightning which...
Ignited by lightning strikes during a record-breaking heat wave, the Biscuit Fire became Oregon largest wildfire of...
The largest storm to ravage Saturn in decades started as a small spot seen in this image from NASA Cassini...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A lightning strike on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is captured by...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Trestles and girders for a new mobile launcher arrive by barge at the turn basin in the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An aerial view of the Launch Complex 39 Area NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida shows the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Mike Bolt holds the Stanley Cup, won this year by...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, segments are being added to the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Segments of a giant crane arrive by truck to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A lightning strike occurred at the lightning protection system of Launch Pad 39B on...