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ESA’s fireball camera in Cáceres, Spain, captured this stunning meteor on Saturday night, May 18, 2024. Credit: ESA/PDO/AMS82 – AllSky7 Fireball Network
And, as it was zooming across the skies at over 160,000 km per hour, it was also captured by the Lightning Imager on the Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite hovering 36,000 km away in geostationary orbit, offering another perspective on this remarkable event. The instrument has four cameras covering Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of South America. Each camera can capture up to 1000 images per second and will continuously observe lightning activity from space.Data from the Lightning Imager will give weather forecasters greater confidence in their predictions of severe storms, particularly in remote regions and on the oceans where lightning detection capabilities are limited.
While a meteor lit up the skies over Spain and Portugal recently, it was also captured by the Meteosat Third Generation Imager weather satellite hovering 35,000 km away in geostationary orbit. Using preliminary data from the Lightning Imager, the animation here shows light flashes accumulated over six seconds as the meteor moves across the instrument’s field of view. Credit: ESA/EUMETSAT
The instrument has four cameras covering Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and parts of South America. Each camera can capture up to 1000 images per second and will continuously observe lightning activity from space.
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