Goddard Glossary: Sprites

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0:00 A white woman with brown and purple hair talks to the camera. She is in front of a background image of the limb of Earth, a curved dark blue line with glowing lights below and stars above. Above her right shoulder, a bright red burst of light strings is visible, a sprite.

0:07 Zoom into another, similar image of the limb of Earth. A red circle appears around another bright red sprite.

0:12 Image fades back to the woman talking.

0:15 A close-up of a sprite, which looks like a bright red oval with a trail of light red coming out the bottom. Text reads Credit: University of Alaska Fairbanks.

0:18 Video of Earth from space. It is dark and flashes of lightning appear against the blueish black.

0:23 Fade back to the woman talking.

0:28 A grainy, black and white image of a bright, flash of light shaped like a long ellipse with a point on the bottom. Text reads “Credit: University of Minnesota.”

0:32 Pan across another image of the limb of Earth from space, ending with another bright red sprite visible, circled in red. 0:36 Fade back to the woman talking.

0:41 Another image of the limb of space, this one with a slightly steeper angle. A bright red sprite is circled in red above Earth. It is zoomed in enough to see individual streaks of red light.

0:43 Back to the woman talking.

0:45 Earth, centered on the brown and green landmass of Africa, with blue oceans and swirling white clouds, against a black background.

0:46 Earth fades into Jupiter, with brown, orange, cream and red streaks swirling horizontally across its surface.

0:48 Fade back to the woman talking.

0:51 A bright blue sprite, which looks sort of like a tadpole. The top “body” of the sprite is a glowing blue orb. Emanating out from the bottom of the blue orb are blue streaks of jagged light, like lightning strikes. It is labeled “Illustration.”