Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor

August 15, 2011 | Space | By: Mark VandeWettering

NASA astronaut Ron Garan snapped this awesome picture of a Perseid meteor from his vantage point on the ISS:

Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor… From Space : Discovery News

No additional commentary: it speaks for itself.

Comments

Comment from @Atdiy / @tymkrs
Time 8/15/2011 at 11:25 pm

So extremely cool! I remember sitting out with a whole bunch of college mates for the Leonids by our college’s observatory. Froze our butts off but it was so worth it.