Red Sprite over Central Africa | International Space Station
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick: "A red sprite shoots out above a lightning strike over Central Africa."
"I was getting setup to take images of Cairo. On the approach across Africa there was a bunch of lightning. Out of 800 or so images there was a red sprite!"
Red Sprites: These mysterious bursts of light in the upper atmosphere momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish. One unusual feature of sprites is that they are relatively cold. They operate more like long fluorescent light tubes than hot compact light bulbs. In general, red sprites take only a fraction of a second to occur and are best seen when powerful thunderstorms are visible from the side.
Image details: 50mm, f1.2, 1/10s, ISO 3200, denoised
Expedition 72 Updates:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/
Roscosmos (Russia): Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA: Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague
Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Astronaut Matthew Dominick
Release Date: Oct. 20, 2024
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