While orbiting high above North America, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare sight- glowing red lights shimmering in ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and ...

What Are Red Sprites? Red sprites, like the one in the picture above, are a form of upper-atmospheric lightning, occurring between 30 and 60 miles above Earth's surface.

Red sprites were first photographed in 1989. Since then they’ve been seen from various aircrafts, the space shuttle, and the ISS, usually about 50 miles high in the atmosphere.

The National Severe Storms Laboratory describes red sprites as electric discharges that occur in the upper atmosphere. These bursts of energy can be 30 miles across, appearing for just a moment ...

A sprite's red tendrils also reach down into the stratosphere, about 15 to 20 miles (25 to 32 km) above Earth's surface. They look brightest between 40 to 45 miles (65 to 72 km) up.

Astronauts in space have captured a rare image of a giant red sprite. By Dave Mosher. 2015-08-18T12:31:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of ...

Red lightning, also known as a "sprite", is an intriguing weather phenomenon associated with certain very intense thunderstorms. While an ordinary lightning flash extends downward from the clouds ...

The red flash is obvious once you spot it. Sprites are a phenomenon associated with lightning storms; they’re electrical discharges from the top of the storm cloud, not the bottom.

Elusive 'red sprite' is seen from SPACE: Astronaut on board the ISS snaps a stunning photo of the rare lightning phenomenon. Andreas Mogensen grabbed a camera as he spotted a thunderstorm brewing ...

Red sprites like this aren’t the only light shows appearing in the sky like this. We’ve also seen rare pink auroras appear in the sky, too.

Before they began to study the Himalayan red sprites, Gaopeng Lu and his colleagues encountered a problem: While visually arresting, An and Dong’s recordings of the 2022 outbreak weren’t ...