Known as "red sprites," the bright red flashes appear high above the clouds in the mesosphere, according to the space agency. "Super lucky a few weeks ago when shooting a timelapse of a lightning ...
from the clouds to the ground, red sprites are flashes of coloured lightning that reach up into the mesosphere, around 50 ...
The phenomenon, which is difficult to observe, usually occurs during major storms. A Portuguese photographer named Diogo Gualter has shared a video on his social media where he shows the sighting of a ...
Although they are very common, sprites are rarely photographed ... sparks created in the upper atmosphere, well above a storm cloud, that follows lightning below the cloud," Cummer said.