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The Thor-Davis investigation tests a special camera that photographs high-altitude thunderstorms through space station’s windows. Capturing imagery up to 100,000 frames per second, Thor-Davis could be a useful tool for observing severe electrical storms from space.

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hanumanth1 year ago

special camera?

babru1 year ago

🦾💐

Billie Jean1 year ago

Wow 🤩

Consuelo Corniola1 year ago

👁️😁👍

چوہدری پرویز1 year ago

Amazing

alluringstorms 🇨🇦1 year ago

@PaulMSmithphoto @wxKobold

Anomalous User🗽🛸1 year ago

That's an interesting name. Reminds me how the NRO uses first century Latin and includes a mythological entity on most of their launches.. You know, because they know that Non-Human Intelligences responsible for UAP exist and have been interacting with humanity. 😬

ibexdream1 year ago

Earth’s nightlife hits different from this angle. 🪩

Susam Dumanli1 year ago

This is wild—100k frames per second from space? Thor-Davis could totally change how we track storms. @MatthewHarrisX2 would probably geek out over the tech behind this. Science is cool.

@DEA_Live1 year ago

Wow that's cool G🔥🚀

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