( so very, very brief—on the order of hundredths of a second. The first photograph of a red sprite, confirming their existence, wasn’t taken until 1989)

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/New_images_of_rare_thunder

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New images of rare thunder

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen has captured images of rare thunder phenomena as part of the Thor-Davis experiment on his Huginn mission.