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The “Sprite” event is associated with thunderstorms and there is little evidence of its existence-until three decades ago, it was believed to be a myth.
Photographer Diogo Gualter “was filming the lightning on the horizon” and eventually captured, on Madeira Island, in Boaventura, a rare atmospheric phenomenon.
It’s called “sprite“And it is also known as” Red Lightning “. It happens when there are very intense thunderstorms. They occur above a storm cloud and can have a huge size, often up to 48 km in diameter, according to.
This event only entered the scientific domain in the 1950s, but only with descriptive records. Until 1989, It was even believed that it could be a myth, since there were no photographic records of the “sprite” (which may also occur in other planets).
This year alone this phenomenon was Captured by casewhen a University of Minnesota team registered an upward flash at the top of the clouds while testing a television chamber with low light.
As it is one, NASA recently launched the project, which invites photographers around the world to pay attention to capturing this phenomenon, which lasts only about 10 millisecondsin order to exist more records.
Os Transient light events (Tles) are colorful, bright and faster flashes than lightning that storms generate above clouds.
“Tles can take a variety of fanciful forms with equally fanciful names. The most frequently observed tos are called ‘Sprites’, such as the enigmatic and playful fades of folklore, ”writes NASA on the project page, which already has 309 observations made in 18 countries.
