🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Red Sprite and the Tree 🪐
The sprite and tree could hardly be more different. To start, the red sprite is an unusual form of lightning, while the tree is a common plant. The sprite is far away -- high in Earth's atmosphere, while the tree is nearby -- only about a football field away. The sprite is fast -- electrons streaming up and down at near light's speed, while the tree is slow -- wood anchored to the ground. The sprite is bright -- lighting up the sky, while the tree is dim -- shining mostly by reflected light. The sprite was fleeting -- lasting only a small fraction of a second, while the tree is durable -- living now for many years. Both however, when captured together, appear oddly similar in this featured composite image captured early this month in France as a thunderstorm passed over mountains of the Atlantic Pyrenees. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)
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Maxime Villaeys
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| Name | Craft |
|---|---|
| Sergey Prokopyev | ISS |
| Dmitry Petelin | ISS |
| Frank Rubio | ISS |
| Jing Haiping | Tiangong |
| Gui Haichow | Tiangong |
| Zhu Yangzhu | Tiangong |
| Jasmin Moghbeli | ISS |
| Andreas Mogensen | ISS |
| Satoshi Furukawa | ISS |
| Konstantin Borisov | ISS |
| Oleg Kononenko | ISS |
| Nikolai Chub | ISS |
| Loral O'Hara | ISS |
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