Fresh data on sprites, jets and elves

[Ivan Seeking]

Fresh data on sprites, jets and elves - strange flashes of coloured light in the Earth's upper atmosphere - is being returned to Earth by a new satellite.

The Taiwanese Rocsat-2 spacecraft has been in orbit for two months and is studying the high-altitude phenomena.

They are believed to be discharges of electricity from above thunderstorms, part of a global electrical circuit. [continued]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3917137.stm

[Rader]

I once say a circular rainbow the diameter of the sun, is this the result of this phenonmena? :confused:

[LURCH]

I once say a circular rainbow the diameter of the sun, is this the result of this phenonmena? :confused:

Probably not. Were you in an airplane at the time?

[Rader]

Probably not. Were you in an airplane at the time?

No I was on land, Granada Spain, at 4:00PM no clouds in the sky and the rainbow was a good distance from the sun about a 45 degree angle off horizon. Water vapor in a concentrated are, maybe a comet burnout in high atmosphre. The country is notorious for sky phenonema, you know we have large chucks of ice fall from the sky, that has no explanation either.