Posted on 10/10/2021 6:36:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"Transient luminous event" sounds like a euphemism for a ghost, but it's actually a beautiful phenomenon that can sometimes be seen from the International Space Station. European Space Agency astronaut and current ISS resident Thomas Pesquet shared a view of an ethereal blue glow emerging over Europe.
Transient luminous events are caused by upper-atmospheric lightning. This one happened in early September...
The ISS is in a perfect position to study the colorful events, which are described using a series of fantastical names, including elves, sprites and giants. Keen-eyed photographers have even been able to capture them from the ground, as with these fantastic views of red sprites shared in 2017.
Pesquet's image represents a single frame from a time-lapse taken from the station. The image would be a beauty just for the way it shows the curve of Earth and the twinkling lights of Europe below. The transient luminous event captured at its finest moment takes it to the next level.
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It is beautiful.
Some pictures are worth $150 billion.
Transient luminous events are caused by upper-atmospheric lightning. This one happened in early September..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Electric Universe.....not junk science:
https://www.electricuniverse.info/
Three friends and myself witnessed a transient luminous event while standing in an open field located within an ancient shield volcano some years ago.
What we witnessed was transient to the extent that it ‘skipped’ on and off, flashing brightly across the entire horizon.
Once seen never forgotten.
“ Some pictures are worth $150 billion”
Or you could just use a satellite
Headline didn’t say “with a camera.” So....
Lover of the Bayou
Raised and swam with the crocodile
Snacked-eye taught me the mojo style
Sucked and weaned on chicken bile
I’m the lover of the bayou
Well, I learned the key to the master lock
I learned to float in the water clock
I learned to capture the lightnin’ shock
I’m the lover of the bayou
Should have included one of my favorite stanzas from the Lover of the Bayou song: (timely with Chinese WuHan stuff these days)
I cooked the bat in the gumbo pan
I drank the blood,
drank the blood from a rusty can
Turned me into the Honga man
I’m the lover of the bayou
Wow! The moon is at 50 km?
the graphic is not to scale.
I’m the lover of the bayou
Good stuff, Frank.
I see Orion in the background.
Ether is a word made up long ago.
It was believed that normal folks would not understand the void of space. There had to be something keeping everything in space from collapsing upon each other. There had to be something so lets call it ether.
That graphic just about covers it all except for the plasma storms that carved out the Grand Canyon in the Western USA.
Imagine if we had the power to sculpt planetary surfaces.We could draw pictures of Joe Biden whichi would last forever!( sarc.)
These lefty envirionmentalists will never allow us to create terra forming, even on other planets. Such party poopers!
That photo shows a Cylon attack.
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