Red Sprite
This is my first red sprite* and the second ever recorded in Greece. This happened in the evening of 17/4/2017, at 2230 EEST (1930 UTC), over a highly active complex of thunderstorms on Cyclades.
To the bottom left, one can observe the flash of the Cb illuminated by the lightning which triggered the red sprite.
EXIF: Canon 70D, Sigma Art 35 mm, ISO 10000, f/1.8, 6''
Photography and Licensing: doudoulakis.blogspot.com/
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*Brief explanation of Red Sprites: Red sprites are generally rare, occur at high altitudes (50-90 km in the atmosphere and above a thundercloud) and are triggered by positive lightning. They can be naively thought of as some kind of upper-atmospheric lightning, but they are more correctly described as a cold plasma phenomenon (cold plasma is, briefly, the state of a partially ionized gas).
Red Sprite
This is my first red sprite* and the second ever recorded in Greece. This happened in the evening of 17/4/2017, at 2230 EEST (1930 UTC), over a highly active complex of thunderstorms on Cyclades.
To the bottom left, one can observe the flash of the Cb illuminated by the lightning which triggered the red sprite.
EXIF: Canon 70D, Sigma Art 35 mm, ISO 10000, f/1.8, 6''
Photography and Licensing: doudoulakis.blogspot.com/
My books concerning natural phenomena / Τα βιβλία μου σχετικά με τα φυσικά φαινόμενα: www.facebook.com/TaFisikaFainomena/
*Brief explanation of Red Sprites: Red sprites are generally rare, occur at high altitudes (50-90 km in the atmosphere and above a thundercloud) and are triggered by positive lightning. They can be naively thought of as some kind of upper-atmospheric lightning, but they are more correctly described as a cold plasma phenomenon (cold plasma is, briefly, the state of a partially ionized gas).