NASA Goddard published a photo of the vapor trail from the
meteor that crashed into Russia this morning. The SEVIRI
instrument, which is on board the Meteosat-10 geostationary
satellite, captured the above image from orbit today. The
meteorite made its dramatic landing near Chelyabinsk, Russia on
Feb. 15. The meteor was the largest in a century, and its
explosion rivaled that of a nuclear blast, according to Nature.
The meteor comes just hours before a 150-foot-wide asteroid is
set to buzz by Earth, coming just 17,200 miles from our planet.
However, NASA scientists have ruled out the possibility that
asteroid 2012 DA14 is related to the Russian meteorite. Image
courtesy of ESA/EUMETSAT