Taken by Frankie Lucena on July 3, 2025 @
International Space Station
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Date Taken: 2025:07:12 16:10:08
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After processing the Raw image of the photo that Astronaut Nichole Ayers managed to capture on July 3 2025 from the ISS, I noticed a large diffused top. These diffused tops can be very thin or very large and are sometimes not picked up by the camera because of the settings or the timing of the shot. In this case the timing and the settings cooperated and gave us an excellent example of a Fully Developed GJ event from Space. Thanx to Levi Boggs of Georgia Tech we have the Optical Energy for this event using the GLM (Geostationary Lightning Mapper) and a precise timestamp that helped Steven Cummer of Duke University find the ELF-VLF radio signal for this event. It would have been great to also have data from the ASIM module onboard the ISS but the ISS was approx. 1100 km from the GJ event, which is way too far for them to have gathered any data. It was also out of range of the LMA (Lightning Mapping Array) which would have also given us some really good lightning data. Hopefully one day we will get a GJ event from space in range of either the LMA or ASIM and that will lead to a pretty interesting Science Paper. Here is the link to the original photo published by NASA. https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS073&roll=E&frame=281502
Photographer's website:
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS073&roll=E&frame=281502
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