A meteoroid as seen from the Space Station… make a wish!
A series of night-time photos were taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli on 5 November around 22:33 GMT, here shown in a time-lapse with a 1-second interval, while the Space Station was flying from the southern Atlantic Ocean over to Kazakhstan.
Paolo was lucky enough to capture a fast fireball falling to Earth over the Atlantic Ocean, off the South Africa west coast — look closely between 00:07 and 00:08 seconds at upper right in this video.
A fireball is basically a very bright meteoroid — a small bit of natural “space rock” — entering Earth’s atmosphere and burning brighter than the background stars. This particular meteoroid was moving much faster than typical, with an estimated speed of around 40 km/s, according to experts working on near-Earth objects (NEOs) in ESA’s Space Situational Awareness Programme.
“This speed is actually quite fast for meteoroids, which typically enter the atmosphere at around 20 km/s,” says Rüdiger Jehn, SSA NEO segment co-manager.
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli in currently working and living on board the International Space Station as part of the Italian Space Agency’s long-duration VITA mission.
Follow the VITA mission: http://blogs.esa.int/VITAmission/
Connect with Paolo via http://paolonespoli.esa.int
Like dude thats bad
Close to the end before the Horrored sound plays that gives you a shock but I found it funny because a warning should of occurred for the ending sound I did see a flash of something not on the ISS but to the top right there was a flash.
Üdvözletem küldöm Magyarországról!
0:23–0:24 smiley face in the clouds in bottom left corner 🙂
Looks pretty round to me…
Damn Earth is so beatiful
Its probably impossible to create a video such as this using some sort-of computer to generate the imagery….
1.04 top left hand corner 😱