A NASA astronaut snapped a photo of glowing features illuminating Earths upper atmosphere.
Aside from the spaceship-looking orbs, subtle hints of bright red flashes appear in the photograph as well.
NASA describes the colorful streaks as a less understood phenomena associated with powerful lightning events.
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick photographed red sprites in Earth’s upper atmosphere from the ISS.©NASA/Matthew Dominick NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick photographed red sprites in Earth’s upper atmosphere from the ISS.
The photo offers a rare glimpse of lightning sprites, which are hard to capture from Earth.
NASA also uses cameras mounted outside the space station to capture a range of data.
So if you happen to capture a glimpse of these bad boys, you know what to do.
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