Nichole Ayers, a NASA astronaut, spotted a rare sprite. The red flash occurred above thunderstorms. It happened over Mexico and the United States. Sprites are electrical bursts high in the atmosphere.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stunning image captured by a NASA astronaut showing a red ‘sprite lightning’ above a thunderstorm is going viral again one year ...
A stunning image captured by a NASA astronaut showing a red 'sprite lightning' above a thunderstorm is going viral again one year later, and many people are just now discovering this rare atmospheric ...