AMAZING VIDEO OF SPRITES: A photographer in Europe has captured high-definition video of a sprite storm over Italy. The images show a sprite's anatomy in rare detail, with enormous tentacles dangling tens of kilometers down to the thunderstorm below, dotted by balls of light the size of football fields. See the video and learn more about sprites on today's edition of Spaceweather.com.
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Above: This still frame comes from an HD video captured on Aug. 6th by Roger Spinner of Montsevelier, Switzerland. The sprites were 215 km away in northern Italy. Browse the Realtime Sprite Photo Gallery for more.
