Rare red sprites photographed in night sky above Arizona
Photographer, Greg McCown, took a group on a storm photo tour and captured extremely rare atmospheric phenomena called red sprites.
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Photographer, Greg McCown, took a group on a storm photo tour and captured extremely rare atmospheric phenomena called red sprites.
If you blink you'll miss them, but red sprites recently exploded so big over an Iowa thunderstorm that they were seen by a photographer in Missouri who captured video of the phenomenon.
Sprite or red sprites are a rare type of lightning that occur way above the atmosphere. Hurricane Nicole generated a rare sprite lightning before hitting Florida earlier this week, according to reports.
The picture was taken from the ISS as it passed over Southeast Asia, shows one blue light over the Gulf of Thailand, and the other near the South China Sea.
According to the the European Southern Observatory, red sprites are a rare form of lightning very high in the Earth's atmosphere.