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Sprite (weather Phenomenon)
Sprites or red sprites are large-scale electric discharges that occur in the mesosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. Precis Sprites appear as luminous red-orange flashes. They often occur in clusters above the troposphere at an altitude range of . Sporadic visual reports of sprites go back at least to 1886. They were first photographed on July 4, 1989, by scientists from the University of Minnesota and have subsequently been captured in video recordings thousands of times. Sprites are sometimes inaccurately called upper-atmospheric lightning. However, they are cold plasma phenomena that lack the hot channel temperatures of tropospheric lightning, so they are more akin to fluorescent tube discharges than to lightning discharges. Sprites are associated with vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprite Over Southeast Asia From ISS
Sprite commonly refers to: * Sprite (computer graphics), a smaller bitmap composited onto another by hardware or software * Sprite (drink), a lemon-lime beverage produced by the Coca-Cola Company * Sprite (folklore), a type of legendary creature including elves, fairies, and pixies Sprite may also refer to: Comics *Sprite (Eternal), a fictional member of the race of Eternals in the Marvel Universe *Sprite (manga), ''Sprite'' (manga), a 2009 Japanese manga series *Sprite, alias of the Marvel Comics character Kitty Pryde *Sprite, alias of the List of Marvel Comics characters: S#Sprite, Marvel Comics character Jia Jing *Sprite comic, a webcomic that consists primarily of computer sprites from video games Computing and technology * Sprite (computer graphics), an image integrated into a larger scene * Sprite (operating system), an operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley * SPRITE (spacecraft), a proposed Saturn atmospheric probe mission * SPRITE infrare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
