The sky didn’t fall
But tiny pieces of comet dust did
The Perseids meteor shower
Was captured by time lapse photography
Over Mount Rainier in Washington, D.C.
Each meteor train only lasts a second
Yet here all are captured for posterity
As they leave their colour signature behind them
And disintegrate into the Earth’s atmosphere.
© Caro Ness 2015
Picture: Friends of NASA
