#PhotoOfTheDay: Sprites Over Château de Beynac

A flash of lightning, and then—something else.

High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sprites-over-chateau-de-beynac/

Red #Sprites are large-scale, faint, reddish-orange flashes occurring 50–90 km (30–55 miles) above intense thunderstorms in the mesosphere.

Triggered by positive lightning striking the ground, these transient luminous events (TLEs) last only a fraction of a second,

https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/669379851c9ae2204ba3596c