NASA Video Shows Meteor Shower… from Above!

Late last week marked the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, generally one of the most dependable shooting star shows of the year. You can usually spot about a meteor per minute streaking across the sky, leaving behind a momentary trail of vaporized rock that fades rapidly as it cools in the upper atmosphere. Meteors burn up about 90 - 100 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. So what happens if you happen to be 400 km up, orbiting the Earth? What would it look like if you were looking down, toward the Earth, during a meteor shower? That video was made on Aug. 10, 2016 using a camera on the International Space Station, specifically designed to look for meteors from above. More

(Source: Slate Magazine - Aug 15)