Atmospheric sprite lightning captured on camera in rare and spectacular display in the Kimberley

Is sprite lightning interacting with the Earths magnetic field to create aurora’s. Isn’t that about where the height is?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Is sprite lightning interacting with the Earths magnetic field to create aurora’s. Isn’t that about where the height is?

I think the explanation given on the page is pretty good.

Interestingly, that page didn’t come up on my Justin. I wonder why?

I’ve noticed before that some of buffy’s ABC news stories don’t come up on my Justin, too.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Is sprite lightning interacting with the Earths magnetic field to create aurora’s. Isn’t that about where the height is?

Last time I checked, the aurora was actually 100 km up and higher, which surprised me no end.

The sprite is about 50 km up.

Michael V said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Is sprite lightning interacting with the Earths magnetic field to create aurora’s. Isn’t that about where the height is?

I think the explanation given on the page is pretty good.

Interestingly, that page didn’t come up on my Justin. I wonder why?

I’ve noticed before that some of buffy’s ABC news stories don’t come up on my Justin, too.

ok, they are different processes, hmmm.

Michael V said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Is sprite lightning interacting with the Earths magnetic field to create aurora’s. Isn’t that about where the height is?

I think the explanation given on the page is pretty good.

Interestingly, that page didn’t come up on my Justin. I wonder why?

I’ve noticed before that some of buffy’s ABC news stories don’t come up on my Justin, too.

She may subscribe?

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Is sprite lightning interacting with the Earths magnetic field to create aurora’s. Isn’t that about where the height is?

I think the explanation given on the page is pretty good.

Interestingly, that page didn’t come up on my Justin. I wonder why?

I’ve noticed before that some of buffy’s ABC news stories don’t come up on my Justin, too.

She may subscribe?

The other alternative is that it may be posted in the science pages and doesn’t necessarily have to appear on Justin.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Atmospheric sprite lightning captured on camera in rare and spectacular display in the Kimberley

beautiful, so cosmic radiation doesn’t have anything to do with it?

transition said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Atmospheric sprite lightning captured on camera in rare and spectacular display in the Kimberley

beautiful, so cosmic radiation doesn’t have anything to do with it?

From the link

But where auroras are produced by charged particles continuously stream from the sun,
sprites are produced by brief pulses of electromagnetism from powerful thunderstorms.

It’s a lot of nitrogen being excited into a giant space neon sign.”

interaction between thunderstorms and the ionosphere

It is thought that one of the ingredients required to produce a sprite, is a positive lightning bolt where electrons flow from the ground up to a cloud.

Tau.Neutrino said:

transition said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Atmospheric sprite lightning captured on camera in rare and spectacular display in the Kimberley

beautiful, so cosmic radiation doesn’t have anything to do with it?

From the link

But where auroras are produced by charged particles continuously stream from the sun,
sprites are produced by brief pulses of electromagnetism from powerful thunderstorms.

It’s a lot of nitrogen being excited into a giant space neon sign.”

interaction between thunderstorms and the ionosphere

It is thought that one of the ingredients required to produce a sprite, is a positive lightning bolt where electrons flow from the ground up to a cloud.

There are some quite good high speed camera videos of sprites.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=myHDv3Xn2_A

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3D033TKwY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3StAXEbGSM

Don’t ask me why this happens. I haven’t a clue.