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A sprightly explanation for UFO sightings?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2009 |
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In legend, sprites are trolls, elves and other spirits that dance high above our ozone layer. But scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered that some very real "sprites" are zipping across the atmosphere ...
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Lightning’s Mirror Image, Only Much Bigger (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With a very lucky shot, scientists have captured a one-second image and the electrical fingerprint of huge lightning that flowed 40 miles upward from the top of a storm.
15 Great iPhone Games
Apr 02, 2009 |
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It happened when no one was looking. The DS was busily extending Nintendo's decades-long dominance of the handheld market, and Sony was trying to make third-party partners stop ignoring the PSP like the kid with dental headgear ...
Physicists explain thunderstorm 'sprites'
Jun 20, 2007 |
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U.S. physicists have determined "sprites" -- bright bursts of light seen in thunderstorms -- travel at 1-10th the speed of light.
Clearest Video of Lightning-Generated 'Sprites' High Above Thunderstorms Captured
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Feb 17, 2006 |
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Researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have captured the best images ever produced of "sprites" -- mysterious flashes of light resembling giant undulating jellyfish that can occur above strong thunderstorms ...
A space station view on giant lightning
Oct 03, 2005 |
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Do giant flashes of lightning striking upwards from thunder clouds merely pose an extraordinarily spectacular view? Or do they actually alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere, playing a role in ozone ...
Scientists Seek Sprite Light Source
Jun 07, 2005 |
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by Mike Bettwy Giant red blobs, picket fences, upward branching carrots, and tentacled octopi --- these are just a few of the phrases used to describe sprites --- spectacular, eerie flashes of colored lig ...
Gamma rays from thunderstorms?
May 03, 2005 |
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Duke University engineers have led the most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from earth's own atmosphere. Their study suggests that this gamma radiation ...
New satellite observations of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes reveal surprising features of mysterious blasts from Earth
Feb 21, 2005 |
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A particle accelerator operates in Earth's upper atmosphere above major thunderstorms at energies comparable to some of the most exotic environments in the universe, according to new satellite observations of terrestrial ...
Columbia crew catches a mysterious TIGER in the Indian Ocean
Jan 17, 2005 |
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An unprecedented flash observed by the space shuttle Columbia crew in 2003 over the Indian Ocean may be a new type of transient luminous event, like lightning sprites, but one that is not necessarily caused by a thunderstorm. ...
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