Sprites on Film (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Filmed at 10,000 frames per second by Japan's NHK television, movies like this of electromagnetic bursts called "sprites" will help scientists better understand how weather high in the atmosphere relates to weather on the ground.

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