NASA Shares Jessica Meir's June 5 Southern Lights Photo From 271 Miles Up
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Updated · Digital Camera World · Jun 18
NASA Shares Jessica Meir's June 5 Southern Lights Photo From 271 Miles Up
3 articles · Updated · Digital Camera World · Jun 18
Summary
June 16 brought NASA’s release of a photo Jessica Meir shot on June 5 from the ISS, showing green and red southern lights over the Indian Ocean south of Perth.
271 miles above Earth, the station offered one of the clearest vantage points because cloud cover likely blocked many ground-based views of the aurora.
Meir captured the image through an ISS window with a Nikon Z9 — one of the first mirrorless cameras tested in space — using a 1/4-second shutter, f/1.8 and ISO 8000.
Meir, the ISS commander through September 2026, is a biologist known for extreme-environment research and for joining the first all-female spacewalk in 2019.