Shuttle mission zooms in on electrifying data January 21 2003 at 06:59AM Florida - Israeli scientists in charge of the space shuttle Columbia's desert dust-monitoring experiment said they have yet to find any dust storms but are zooming in on thunderstorms with electrifying results. A pair of cameras aboard Columbia have captured video images of an "elf" - a luminous red, bagel-shaped electrical phenomenon that occurs above a thunderstorm in less than a millisecond. Atmospheric scientist Yoav Yair from the Open University of Israel in Tel Aviv said these are the first scientific images of an elf ever recorded from...