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17 kwietnia 2023
A large red ring is seen high above a landscape that has 
sparse clouds and a foreground building.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

ELVES Lightning over Italy
Źródło obrazu i prawa autorskie: Valter Binotto

Opis: What's that red ring in the sky? Lightning. The most commonly seen type of lightning involves flashes of bright white light between clouds. Over the past 50 years, though, other types of upper-atmospheric lightning have been confirmed, including red sprites and blue jets. Less well known and harder to photograph is a different type of upper atmospheric lightning known as ELVES. ELVES are thought to be created when an electromagnetic pulse shoots upward from charged clouds and impacts the ionosphere, causing nitrogen molecules to glow. The red ELVES ring pictured had a radius of about 350 km and was captured in late March about 100 kilometers above Ancona, Italy. Years of experience and ultra-fast photography were used to capture this ELVES -- which lasted only about 0.001 second.

Jutro: moon shadow, moon shadow


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Autorzy i wydawcy: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) i Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
Przedstawiciel NASA: Phillip Newman, obowiązują określone prawa.
Polityka prywatności sieci NASA oraz ważne uwagi
Serwis prowadzony przez: ASD w NASA / GSFC,
NASA Science Activation
oraz Michigan Tech. U.