{"id":207908,"date":"2025-03-06T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/spectacular-photo-taken-from-iss-shows-gigantic-jet-of-upward-shooting-lightning-towering-50-miles-over-new-orleans"},"modified":"2025-03-06T05:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:10:17","slug":"spectacular-photo-taken-from-iss-shows-gigantic-jet-of-upward-shooting-lightning-towering-50-miles-over-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/spectacular-photo-taken-from-iss-shows-gigantic-jet-of-upward-shooting-lightning-towering-50-miles-over-new-orleans","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular photo taken from ISS shows \u2018gigantic jet\u2019 of upward-shooting lightning towering 50 miles over New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-NpnvjqkKeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A newly unveiled photo captured by an astronaut on the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/international-space-station\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/international-space-station\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/international-space-station\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" class=\"\" data-custom-tracking-id=\"9850977947147290709\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-label=\"International Space Station\">International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) provides a rare glimpse at an upward-shooting \u201cgigantic jet\u201d of lightning likely extending more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) above the U.S. coast.<\/p>\n<p>The striking image was taken by an unnamed ISS crewmember on Nov. 19, 2024, but it was not initially shared by NASA or any other space organization. However, photographer Frankie Lucena, who specializes in capturing giant lightning sprites, stumbled across photos of the event on the Gateway to Astronaut photography of Earth website and shared them with <a href=\"http:\/\/Spaceweather.com\">Spaceweather.com<\/a>, which reshared the shots Feb. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly unveiled photo captured by an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) provides a rare glimpse at an upward-shooting \u201cgigantic jet\u201d of lightning likely extending more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) above the U.S. coast. The striking image was taken by an unnamed ISS crewmember on Nov. 19, 2024, but it was not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}