Chasing Sprites And Electric Skies

Paul Smith is a night-sky fanatic and photographer.
His obsession is sprites: immense jolts of light that
flicker high above thunderstorms. Last October, he
guided NASA scientist Dr. Burcu Kosar through the
backroads of Oklahoma to catch one herself.
Although she'd studied sprites for more than 15 years,
she hadn't yet chased one.
Read more about chasing sprites with Paul and Burcu:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2022/1...
Learn about NASA's citizen science project
Spritacular: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/..
Learn about the Heliophysics Big Year:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-sy..
Image credits: Paul Smith, Frankie Lucena, Panagiotis
Tsouras, Thomas Ashcraft. AIl imagery of sprites is
copyrighted and used with permission.
Music credits: "The Beauty Beyond" by Jeremy Noel
William Abbott [PRS], Vasco [PRS]; "Outer Orbit" by
Alexander Ryder Mcnair (ASCAP, Harry Gregson Alexander Ryder Mcnair [ASCAP], Harry Gregson
Williams [BMI], Ho Ling Tang [BMI; "Wonderful Orbit"
by Tom Furse Fairfax Cowan [PRS); "Starlights" by
Marc Teitler [PRS], Vasco [PRS]: "A Tranquil End" by
Luke Gordon [PRS]; "Virtual Tidings" by Andrew
Michael Britton [PRs], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]:
"Winter Aurora" by Samuel Karl Bohn [PRS]: "Lava
Flow" and "Water Dance" by Ben Niblett [PRS], Jon
Cotton [PRS].
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Joy Ng (KBRWyle)
Scientist: Burcu Kosar (Catholic University of
America)
Photographer: Paul Smith
Photographer: Frankie Lucena
Photographer: Panagiotis Tsouras
Photographer: Thomas Ashcraft
Videographer: Joy Ng, Thomas Smith
Writer: Lina Tran
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