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Lightning in Southeast Asia

Astronaut Don Pettit took this nighttime photo while the International Space Station orbited near the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia.

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The St. Clair River flows into the freshwater Lake St. Clair and separates the American state of Michigan (top) from the Canadian province of Ontario (bottom) in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above.
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