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Sprite Lightning in HD

Credits: Stephane Vetter, TWAN

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der raub der sabinerinnen, kurt hoffmann 1954

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Red sprite is a type of lightning and rarely has it ever been photographed in this detail. Even though sprites have been recorded for over 30 years, their root cause remains unknown. Some thunderstorms have them, but most don't.

These mysterious bursts of light in the upper atmosphere momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish. 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 Credits & Copyright: stephane vetter

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«Le Bonhomme — Alsace» by Stephane Vetter

Camera by Stephane Vetter @StephaneVetter

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Music by Terrallende @Terrallende

Track «Fantasma de Atlántida»    • Fantasma de Atlántida  

Video editing by pictuREflection @pictuREflection

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Stephane Vetter

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

wilderness

Recent Image of Red sprite taken in Italy, July 4, 2021 🇮🇹

Red sprite is a type of lightning and rarely has it ever been photographed in this detail. Even though sprites have been recorded for over 30 years, their root cause remains unknown. Some thunderstorms have them, but most don't.

These mysterious bursts of light in the upper atmosphere momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish. 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 Credits & Copyright: stephane vetter

* * * * * “Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon such rituals of return to the human condition. Seeking enlightenment or the Promised Land or the way home, a man would go, or be forced to go into the wilderness, measure himself against the Creation, recognize finally his true place within it, and thus be saved both from pride and from despair. Seeing himself as a tiny member of a world he cannot comprehend or master or in any final sense possess, he cannot possibly think of himself as a God. And by the same token, since he shares in, depends upon, and is graced by all of which he is a part, neither can he become a fiend; he cannot descend into the final despair of destructiveness. Returning from the wilderness, he becomes a restorer of order, a preserver… He sees the truth, recognizes his true heirs, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.” –Wendell Berry

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“Sprite Lightning over Italian Mountain,”

Monte Campo dei Fiori, Italy, 2021 July 4,

Credit: Stephane Vetter

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Aurora on Ice by Stephane Vetter  ( Nuits sacrées )

Not from a snowglobe, this expansive fisheye view of ice and sky was captured on February 1, from Jökulsárlón Beach, southeast Iceland, planet Earth. Chunks of glacial ice on the black sand beach glisten in the light of a nearly full moon surrounded by a shining halo. The 22 degree lunar halo itself is created by ice crystals in high, thin clouds refracting the moonlight. Despite the bright moonlight, curtains of aurora still dance through the surreal scene. In early February, their activity was triggered by Earth's restless magnetosphere and the energetic wind from a coronal hole near the Sun's south pole. Bright Jupiter, also near opposition, is visible at the left, beyond the icy lunar halo.

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Sprite Lightning known as red sprite, in HD Credit : Stephane Vetter (TWAN) via /r/spaceporn https://ift.tt/2nto0S1

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Red sprites over Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. (Photos by Stephane Vetter on Facebook)

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Good Morning Leonid

Credits: Stephane Vetter, Nuits sacrées, TWAN

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A Starry Night of Iceland Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrees); Annotation: Judy Schmidt

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Recent Image of Red sprite taken in Italy, July 4, 2021 🇮🇹

Red sprite is a type of lightning and rarely has it ever been photographed in this detail. Even though sprites have been recorded for over 30 years, their root cause remains unknown. Some thunderstorms have them, but most don't.

These mysterious bursts of light in the upper atmosphere momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish. 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 Credits & Copyright: stephane vetter

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Red Sprites over France

photograph by Stephane Vetter

[apod]

2020 July 4

Meeting in the Mesosphere Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter (TWAN, Nuits sacrees)

Explanation: A sensitive video camera on a summit of the Vosges mountains in France captured these surprising fireworks above a distant horizon on June 26. Generated over intense thunderstorms, this one about 260 kilometers away, the brief and mysterious flashes have come to be known as red sprites. The transient luminous events are caused by electrical breakdown at altitudes of 50 to 100 kilometers. That puts them in the mesophere, the coldest layer of planet Earth's atmosphere. The glow beneath the sprites is from more familiar lighting though, below the storm clouds. But on the right, the video frames have captured another summertime apparition from the mesophere. The silvery veins of light are polar mesospheric clouds. Also known as noctilucent or night shining clouds, the icy clouds still reflect the sunlight when the Sun is below the horizon.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200704.html