Okay, that's pretty awesome.
It's the first time anybody's caught them on camera from the ground.A Japanese astronomer has spotted fascinating green streaks of light passing through a cloudy sky — footage that, as it turns out, has a fascinating extraterrestrial explanation.
By comparing his mysterious footage to orbital data, Fujii figured out the green flashes belonged to NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite 2, or ICESat-2, which had passed over Japan that fateful night., it's the first time the satellite's green laser pulses have been spotted from the Earth's surface — for a good reason.
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