British astronaut Tim Peake shared an incredible video of what lightning storms on Earth look like from space.
"Amazing how much lightning can strike our planet in a short time," he wrote Tuesday. The time-lapse, which condenses about 10-12 minutes of footage into 30 seconds, was taken while travelling over Turkey between North Africa and Russia.
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Lightning strikes Earth about 100 times every second, according to National Geographic. And it's extraordinarily powerful — a single bolt can contain up to 1 billion volts of electricity.
See Peake's video below.
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