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CREDIT: S. REISING; SOURCE: STANFORD/LOCKHEED-MARTIN
Now you see it.... Sprites above thunderstorms reach Earth's
ionosphere. This false-color low-light-level television image was taken
from a ground observatory near Fort Collins, CO, in the course of a Stanford
University/Lockheed-Martin joint experiment aimed at studying sprites and
related phenomena. (Right) A sprite-associated sferic shows a characteristic
slow tail after the initial excitation.
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