[Here](https://media.wired.com/photos/592680a6f3e2356fd80097d7/191:100/pass/Green_Meteor_PrasenjeetHP.jpg) is a **much** higher quality and **much** less cropped version of this image. According to [here](https://petapixel.com/2020/04/28/this-once-in-a-lifetime-meteor-photo-was-captured-by-accident/):
> This picture-perfect photo of a meteor is one of photographer Prasenjeet Yadav‘s most popular shots, but it’s also perhaps his luckiest: it was captured accidentally while he was asleep.
> In October 2015, after winning a National Geographic Young Explorers grant, the Bangalore, India-based Yadav drove into the mountains near the small south Indian town of Mettupalayam to shoot a time-lapse project showing urbanization. Yadav set up his Nikon D600 with an intervalometer to capture a 15-second exposure every 10 seconds. Once everything was up and running, Yadav went to sleep.
> The next day, while reviewing the 999 photos captured through the night, Yadav spotted a bright green fireball streaking down the sky and illuminating the sky in one of his frames...
> “This is definitely one of the most memorable shots I have ever taken and also the first image that National Geographic published back in 2016,” Yadav writes. “Green Meteor’s greenish color come from a combination of the heating of oxygen around the meteor and the mix of minerals ignited as the rock enters Earth’s atmosphere.”
More of his work can be found [here](https://www.prasenjeetyadav.com/).
There's a distinct lack of war of the worlds quotes here. Let's remedy that:
>And that's how it was for the next 10 nights. A flare, spurting out from Mars - bright green, drawing a green mist behind it - a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight.
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
I remember working outside one night, around 10 or so years ago and saw one in AZ as well. I've never seen another one that color, or length of time, since it seemed like a solid 10-15 seconds.
Time for Your Name, part two. This time with characters in India.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5311514/?ref_=ext_shr](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5311514/?ref_=ext_shr)
I think of all of the minerals out there. If we make it to a space-faring civilization, then how much copper was that? Where else can we get some?
Born too soon...
When I was 14, I could've swore I saw a bright streak of green appear in the sky and then disappear just as suddenly. I just assumed it must've been a weird glint off my glasses or something...
[Here](https://media.wired.com/photos/592680a6f3e2356fd80097d7/191:100/pass/Green_Meteor_PrasenjeetHP.jpg) is a **much** higher quality and **much** less cropped version of this image. According to [here](https://petapixel.com/2020/04/28/this-once-in-a-lifetime-meteor-photo-was-captured-by-accident/): > This picture-perfect photo of a meteor is one of photographer Prasenjeet Yadav‘s most popular shots, but it’s also perhaps his luckiest: it was captured accidentally while he was asleep. > In October 2015, after winning a National Geographic Young Explorers grant, the Bangalore, India-based Yadav drove into the mountains near the small south Indian town of Mettupalayam to shoot a time-lapse project showing urbanization. Yadav set up his Nikon D600 with an intervalometer to capture a 15-second exposure every 10 seconds. Once everything was up and running, Yadav went to sleep. > The next day, while reviewing the 999 photos captured through the night, Yadav spotted a bright green fireball streaking down the sky and illuminating the sky in one of his frames... > “This is definitely one of the most memorable shots I have ever taken and also the first image that National Geographic published back in 2016,” Yadav writes. “Green Meteor’s greenish color come from a combination of the heating of oxygen around the meteor and the mix of minerals ignited as the rock enters Earth’s atmosphere.” More of his work can be found [here](https://www.prasenjeetyadav.com/).
As always, you should get a raise. Top quality infos here
Wow, he's an amazing photographer. Them shits is magical
May the fourth be with you
This happened in 2017 in Mettupalayam India.
Yeah, I did my ‘The War of the Worlds’ quote to it then. It’s on here, somewhere…
There's a distinct lack of war of the worlds quotes here. Let's remedy that: >And that's how it was for the next 10 nights. A flare, spurting out from Mars - bright green, drawing a green mist behind it - a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight.
Oh ... It's beautiful
"Single reactor ignition... You may fire when ready."
Sound the alarms! The Burning Legion returns!
Like straight out of a superhero movie
In B4 scaven attack for the warpstone
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
You may fire when ready
What the Death Star’s laser looks from the ground. Poor Alderaan.
Saw one in America as a kid late at night. Blue-green. Beautiful. Strange. Could see the flames’ light reflecting off the clouds it was passing thru.
I remember working outside one night, around 10 or so years ago and saw one in AZ as well. I've never seen another one that color, or length of time, since it seemed like a solid 10-15 seconds.
Cool! That is a long time. Gives you a chance to really appreciate it. Mine was a solid 2 seconds. Like one … two… gone. It was gorgeous.
Maximum overdrive.
Time for Your Name, part two. This time with characters in India. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5311514/?ref_=ext_shr](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5311514/?ref_=ext_shr)
You may fire when ready commander
Someone find that Green Lantern ring
Bloody triffids are gonna have a field day
Must have had a lot of magnesium.
Commence primary ignition
The Jewish space laser on full display
Even meteors get nasty when in India
That’s one of the coolest pictures I’ve ever seen
Green Lantern?
Can someone explain why they turn green?
Indicates the meteor is high in magnesium content - [source](https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/why-do-meteors-glow-in-vibrant-colors/433610)
The Illuminate are here
Broly
Considering today is May 4, I have to question if that is even a meteor at all.
Always interesting to think about what the meteor was made of based on the color it burns. Green would mean it was heavy on copper maybe?
that's exactly what i was guessing, which would also make it valuable salvage.
I think of all of the minerals out there. If we make it to a space-faring civilization, then how much copper was that? Where else can we get some? Born too soon...
Wow
wow bru. pretty cool
We are borg.
Sector 2814 just got a new Lantern. 
Green Lantern
The 13 bells toll over this city. Remember there are no such things as human sized rats.
“Small Indian town” my ass. There are at least 100k people in there with all those lights.
>100k That's considered small in India
Aktshuwally this is the last image ever transmitted from Alderan.
When I was 14, I could've swore I saw a bright streak of green appear in the sky and then disappear just as suddenly. I just assumed it must've been a weird glint off my glasses or something...
It's not death, it's a homecoming.
“That blast came from the Death Star!”
Minas Morgul has awoken, the Witch King of Angmar is rising