What is Sprite, a rare red lighting captured by NASA
This phenomenon is known as the red sprite and is extremely rare. This occurrence will help scientists expand upon previous ...
Amateur Photographer on MSN2 个月
Rare image of Red Sprite Lightning wins top weather photography competition
Wang Xin has won the overall prize with an image of several red lightning sprites during a thunderstorm in Shanghai. The ...
BBC6 年
Hunting mystery giant lightning from space
"They are slightly different to lightning," Dr Neubert told BBC News. "It's a pulse of the electric field that travels up. For the sprite - when the atmosphere gets thin, the field can get a ...
Business Insider India9 年
Astronauts have captured a rare image of a giant red sprite from space
Sprites are akin to gigantic red lightning bursts. Steve Cummer, a Duke University engineer who's studied sprites for years, summed up how they form quite nicely in a National Geographic News ...