According to him, he was trying to make the time-laps of the Milky Way’s rising, it was about one in the morning. Suddenly he saw several thunderstorms in the distance. Jingpeng Liu immediately began looking for sprites – and found them.
Sprites – this is an “exotic” form of lightning, which takes off from a thunderstorm up, not down. Some researchers believe that they are associated with cosmic rays – subatomic particles from outer space affect the upper part of Earth’s atmosphere, producing secondary electrons, which trigger sprites. If this is true, then sprites may become more in the near future, since the intensity of cosmic radiation will increase from the recession of the solar cycle.
Although sprites have been observed for at least a century, most scientists did not believe that they existed until 1989, when sprites were photographed by cameras on board a spaceship. Now “hunters for sprites” regularly take pictures of them. Try and you!
