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Night sprite from space

With the black of space above a curved cloudy night on Earth, we see a fan-like pink glow that goes down to a white area of glowing cloud below
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With the black of space above a curved cloudy night on Earth, we see a fan-like pink glow that goes down to a white area of glowing cloud below
"Nichole Ayers is a NASA astronaut currently on the space station, and she caught this shot of a sprite above a thunderstorm Thursday morning.

Sprites are these red flashes that appear above thunderstorms, particularly when a really strong cloud-to-ground lightning strike has occurred underneath. They spread upward like a jellyfish (or firework) and can reach all the way into the Mesosphere (50 miles above the Earth). You sometimes view these from the surface with a keen eye and a clear view to a thunderstorm far on the horizon, or you can be in outer space."

Image by Nichole Ayers, via Facebook
2 weeks ago

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stereoplex pro 1 week ago
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My word, that's lovely.
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Incredible.
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Incredible! I had no idea.

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