One evening last summer, scientists stationed in Colorado pointed low-light video cameras and detectors northeast across the Great Plains and for 3 hours, stared into the mostly dark band of sky above a South Dakota thunderstorm.
Wide-field (above) and telescopic (below) images of Sprites over northern Mexico, as seen from Langmuir Laboratory, 491 km away in New Mexico.
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