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NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere

By Alana Johnson | NASA, Gretchen McCartney | JPL on Jul 14, 2019   Featured, Science/Education  

NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere

  This GIF shows the flash of an asteroid impacting Earth’s atmosphere over the Caribbean Sea on June 22, 2019. It was captured by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument aboard GOES-16, an Earth-monitoring satellite operated by NOAA and NASA. CIRA/CSU, RAMMB/NOAA/NASA  › Larger view When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something […]

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