This Astronaut of the ISS films colored lightnings as rare as they are stunning

It's a well-known adage, and Donald Pettit noticed it last week. While he was in space over South America, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the American astronaut captured a phenomenon as rare as it was pompous. He who was appointed flight leader for Expedition 72 of NASA was able to film a series of flashes not like the others. Indeed, these flashes, which broke out at the level of the Amazonian basin, were surprisingly colorful, r…