NASA Invites: Enjoy the Lyrid Meteor Shower, Peaking April 21–22
While most cameras were looking up at the 2012 peak of the Lyrid meteor shower, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station trained his video camera on Earth below. Footage from that night is now revealing breathtaking images of Earth at night with meteors burning up in the atmosphere.The constellation Lyra, visible in...