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Red Sprite
March 24 , 2024
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- A European Space Agency (ESA)astronaut recently photographed an uncommon occurrence termed a red sprite.
- These images have captured for the Thor-Davis experiment at Danish Technical University.
- The experiment aims to investigate upper atmospheric lightning and its implications on greenhouse gas levels, thereby influencing global warming.
- The Scientists approximated the dimensions of the red sprite in the image to be around 14 by 26 kilometres (8.7 by 16.2 miles).
- A red sprite represents an extraordinary meteorological phenomenon categorized as a Transient Luminous Event (TLE).
- Occasionally dubbed red lightning, it occurs above thunderclouds at altitudes between 40 and 80 kilometres (25 - 50 miles) above the Earth's surface.
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