Storms from Space

[Brian Emfinger]

Spaceweather.com has a nice image this morning of a storm (in West Africa) as viewed from the ISS. It would be cool to have a picture like this of a storm that you were chasing and especially one that had a tornado!

Since its NASA stuff I figured it was OK to go ahead and post the pic instead of just the link.

I know there are few pictures out there along these lines so post if you know of them. I have that Orbit book and there are some good ones in there.

Back in October I saw some lightning at night on NASA TV (during a space shuttle mission) and uploaded it to youtube - HERE

 

[david diehl]

man, I would love to have some pictures like that of storms that I have chased.

 

[Skip Talbot]

What a fantastic shot, I love the depth and contrast the photo offers, given the angle you typically don't get from a satellite. It would be nice to see a shot like this on a more organized supercell, as that anvil looks a little wispy/mushy (nice overshooting cap though).

 

[Andrea Griffa]

Very nice shot! I like so much that wonderful overshoot on the bottom of the storm. I don't see the time to see something similar on the Plains.

 

[Tarmo Tanilsoo]

This picture is amazing. What is even more amazing, is, that this is taken from Space... Kudos to the photographer(s)

 

[Phil Kurimski]

Wow...sure beats any high resolution satellite picture. I think a time lapse of this large storm forming would be awesome.

 

[Brian Emfinger]

I found where the pictures that astronauts take while in orbit are stored online:

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

There are thousands of pictures but you can search to find what you want. Here are a few more:

There are probably some really good ones hidden in that site.

 

[Dann Cianca]

Wow, unbelievable photos ... think I might try and go space chasing one of these days...

 

[Sam Sagnella]

WOW! Those are awesome shots! I can already feel my spare time being sucked up by that website; great find!

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040915.html

 

[Alexandre Aguiar]

Thanks friends for these great amazing pictures. NASA's storm chasing program.

 

[Paul Austin]

If you have a pair of blue/red 3D glasses, check out this rendering of the storm:

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2008/24feb08/anvil3D.jpg?PHPSESSID=ite3onknkp63ug3rlblpdsfno0

 

[Lori Meyer]

That pic looks pretty cool even without the glasses.