ASIM - Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor is a Danish-lead ESA external payload for the International Space Station.
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
11 Feb 2025
A lab with a view 🌍
📅 Columbus – 17 years on, this European science module continues to be an integral part of the International @Space_Station.
🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
ALT View of Europe's Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station as seen by a US spacewalker in January 2025.
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Despite the fact that @ASIM_Payload is still fully operational on @Space_Station it already reached Danish Technical Museum for an event with @Astro_Andreas. @Terma_Global was the prime contractor for the @esaspaceflight mission with @DTUtweet and partners.
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
7 Aug 2024
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Amazing edge-view of a sprite from @Space_Station by astronaut Matthew Dominick. This excerpt shows a sprite captured at the horizon edge during a nighttime pass over southeast Asia. This sprite reaches approximately 60 kilometer altitudes, which is in the accepted range of 35-90 kilometers for sprites (the visible edge-on atmosphere is about 120 kilometers). There is a blue-to-red emission transition at about 20 kilometers. The very base of the blue is about 5-8 kilometers.
Expedition 71, iss071e319414, Nikon Z9, 50mm f1.2, 1/3th sec, ISO 12800, 7-1-2024.
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First sprite ground capture over Denmark. @ASIM_Payload is a Danish led @esa mission on @Space_Station. We're happy to see beautiful ground images of these fascinating upper atmosphere discharges.
dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/yderst-…
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
20 Jun 2024
Super lucky a few weeks ago when shooting a timelapse of a lightning storm off the coast of South Africa. One of the frames in the timelapse had a red sprite. A rare event. My knowledge is pretty much just from Wikipedia but I want to know more.
50mm lens, f1.2, 1/5s, ISO 3200
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
16 Jun 2024
I am so lucky to have captured such a picture of Gigantic Jets Lightning over Himalayan Mountains.
And it has now been published at #APOD of June 18.
I took them on the early morning of June 10, 2024.
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
Starliners approach to @Space_Station provided a great photo opportunity for the @esa #Columbus module with STP-H7 and @ASIM_Payload on the exposed platform. @ASIM_Payload has been observing electromagnetic discharges in the upper atmosphere since Apr. 2018 and is still going 💪
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
16 May 2024
Thunderstorm observations from @Space_Station provide better data than satellites at higher orbits. Monitoring thunderstorms helps scientists evaluate their role in atmospheric dynamics and climate change. doi.org/10.1038/s41526-023-0…
ALT iss057e055409 (10/19/2018) - View of the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) and the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) payloads installed on the Columbus External Payload Facility (Columbus-EPF).
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
8 May 2024
On April 15, 2024, the @ASIM_Payload was relocated to its original position on the Columbus module on board of the @Space_Station. 📸 We've got some exclusive post-relocation pics for you! 🌟
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
15 Apr 2024
⚡️ Back to its roots. The 'space storm hunter' ASIM moved to its original, preferred position on @esa's Columbus module today.
👀 The relocation will give the @ASIM_Payload a wider field of view to monitor high energy events in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Its science could improve our knowledge of dust storms, pollutants, forest fires and volcanoes. 🌋
🦾 The @csa_asc robotic arm was in charge of the move, under the guidance of the Belgian User Support and Operations Centre🇧🇪 @Busoc_official
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
15 Apr 2024
🅿️ ASIM gave up its vantage point on the International @Space_Station to other Earth observation experiments in 2022.
🔙 The @DTUSpace instrument that detects #lightning phenomena above the clouds reclaims now its original spot: aeronomie.be/en/news/2024/as…
ALT Graphic showing the relocation of the ASIM payload outside ESA's Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station.
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
15 Apr 2024
#ASIM, the instrument that detects #lightning phenomena above the clouds for @esa, will be relocated to its original position on the #ISS under the guidance of the Belgian User Support and Operations Centre 🇧🇪 @Busoc_official
aeronomie.be/en/news/2024/as…
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15 Apr 2024
Moving day for @ASIM_Payload. Follow now on @NASA Live Stream from @Space_Station:
youtube.com/watch?v=jPTD2gnZ…
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15 Apr 2024
It is moving day. @ASIM_Payload is going back to it's original location on the @Space_Station's Columbus module. January 2022, @ASIM_Payload was temporarily moved out the way from the SDX to SDN location because of a new expirement, which has now completed.
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
22 Mar 2024
Researchers monitor thunderstorms and its impacts on Earth’s atmosphere and climate. The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor could improve our knowledge of dust storms, pollutants, forest fires, and volcanoes. Discover more @Space_Station science: go.nasa.gov/3OPtMH6
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@ASIM_Payload mentioned in this @NASA article on the @ISS_Research:
Groundbreaking Results from Space Station Science in 2023 nasa.gov/missions/station/is… via @NASA
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
28 Jan 2024
Begejstring over Andreas Mogensens arbejde med kæmpelyn i rummet
dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/begejst…
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ASIM 🦋 @asim.dk retweeted
12 Dec 2023
Lightning goes both ways - down to strike the Earth and up towards space. Amazing photo of a red sprite above a storm, by @Astro_Andreas.
Details, including gif: tinyurl.com/ycynckzr @esa
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Det er vi stolte af: BBC skriver om vores nye billeder af lyn optaget fra rumstationen i samarbejde med @Astro_Andreas og med udstyr, DTU Space har modificeret i forbindelse med Thor-Davis-projektet. Data er omdannet til billeder hos os #dkrummet #dkastro
bbc.co.uk/newsround/67635753
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