  The Mini-EUSO instrument is a UV telescope to be placed inside the
International Space Station (ISS), looking down on the Earth from a
nadir-facing window in the Russian Zvezda module. Mini-EUSO will map the earth
in the UV range (300 - 400 nm) with a spatial resolution of 6.11km and a
temporal resolution of 2.5 $\mu$s, offering the opportunity to study a variety
of atmospheric events such as transient luminous events (TLEs) and meteors, as
well as searching for strange quark matter and bioluminescence. Furthermore,
Mini-EUSO will be used to detect space debris to verify the possibility of
using a EUSO-class telescope in combination with a high energy laser for space
debris remediation. The high-resolution mapping of the UV emissions from Earth
orbit allows Mini-EUSO to serve as a pathfinder for the study of Extreme Energy
Cosmic Rays (EECRs) from space by the JEM-EUSO collaboration.
