Chasing Sprites Electric Skies

Paul Smith is a night-sky fanatic and photographer. His obsession is sprites:
immense jolts of light that flicker high above thunderstorms. Last October, he
guided NASA scientist Dr. Burcu Kosar through the backroads of Oklahoma to
catch one herself. Although she'd studied sprites for more than 15 years, she
hadn't yet chased one.

Read more about chasing sprites with Paul and Burcu:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2022/1...

Learn about NASA's citizen science project Spritacular:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...

Learn about the Heliophysics Big Year: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-sy...

Image credits: Paul Smith, Frankie Lucena, Panagiotis Tsouras, Thomas
Ashcraft. All imagery of sprites is copyrighted and used with permission.

Music credits: “The Beauty Beyond” by Jeremy Noel William Abbott [PRS],
Vasco [PRS]; “Outer Orbit” by Alexander Ryder Mcnair [ASCAP], Harry Gregson
Williams [BMI], Ho Ling Tang [BMI]; “Wonderful Orbit” by Tom Furse Fairfax
Cowan [PRS]; “Starlights” by Marc Teitler [PRS], Vasco [PRS]; “A Tranquil End”
by Luke Gordon [PRS]; “Virtual Tidings” by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David
Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]; “Winter Aurora” by Samuel Karl Bohn [PRS]; “Lava
Flow” and “Water Dance” by Ben Niblett [PRS], Jon Cotton [PRS].
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Joy Ng (KBRwyle)

Scientist: Burcu Kosar (Catholic University of America)
Photographer: Paul Smith

Photographer: Frankie Lucena

Photographer: Panagiotis Tsouras

Photographer: Thomas Ashcraft

Videographer: Joy Ng, Thomas Smith

Writer: Lina Tran