Red sprites over Nebraska

Now only the spring, but in the States located in the Great plains has already begun the summer storm season. Tszinpin, Liu captured evidence of this may 9, he was able to photograph red sprites, dancing over the city of Hickman in Nebraska.

According to him, he was trying to do a time laps of the sunrise, the milky way, was about one in the morning. Suddenly, he noticed a few thunderstorms in the distance. Tszinpin, Liu immediately started to look for sprites and found them.

Sprites are "exotic" form of lightning, which flies from the storm up, not down. Some researchers believe that they are associated with cosmic rays — subatomic particles from outer space strike the upper part of the Earth's atmosphere, producing secondary electrons which starts the sprites. If this is true, the sprites in the next time may be more, since the intensity of cosmic radiation increases from the decline of the solar cycle.

Although sprites have been observed for at least a century, most scientists did not believe they existed until 1989 when sprites were photographed by cameras on Board the spacecraft. Now "hunters sprites" regularly make pictures of them. Try it and you!

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»