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Looking for Lightning, Finding Fireballs

Researchers are using data from weather satellites to detect meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using NASA Bolides data courtesy of Jeffrey Smith/SETI. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published January 27, 2022
Data acquired July 23, 2017 - January 17, 2022

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