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Yikes! Lightning Strike Near KSC Launchpad

by Nancy Atkinson on June 17, 2011

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Lightning strikes near Kennedy Space Center Pad B. Credit: NASA

That was close! A fixed camera at launchpad B at Kennedy Space Center (which is being torn down/modified) captured an amazing lightning strike earlier this week.

Hat tip to @InsideKSC on Twitter

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Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.

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  • http://lightsinthedark.wordpress.com/ J. Major

    Whoa! Intense! I bet there’s a nice fulgurite buried where that one hit, no?

  • WaxyMary

    It seems this camera is mounted to the diagonal lightning arrestor tower, microwave relay array bundle as we see in the background.

    Mary

  • Anonymous

    Oh wow!! That is an awesome picture, but too close!

  • http://twitter.com/earthlingX EarthlingX

    I almost clicked the ‘like’ button above, then i remembered this is very close to Atlantis, and well, i don’t like that :/
    Pretty picture though :)

  • abhinesh kumar

    too sensitive lol……..?

  • Corey Simmonds

    I’d love to get a shot like that, but of course, I don’t think I’d be willing to get that close to do it :)

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