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Astronauts Reveal The Shocking Beauty of Lightning From Space


If you live on this planet Earth, odds are good that you've experienced a lightning storm in your life: a wild, crashing affair, with forks of light that split the sky, accompanied by the bone-rattling roar of thunder.

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