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Friday, March 25, 2005

Heavenly light show caught on film
Mark Peplow

Thundercloud discharges have been imaged in unprecedented detail.


VIEW MOVIE:
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050321/multimedia/sprite.mov

In these three video segments, each sprite lasts between 16 and 50 milliseconds. The field of view is about 2.5 kilometres across, although each sprite can grow as long as 60
kilometres.

© R. A. Marshall and U. S. Inan / Stanford University
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050321/full/050321-6.html

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