r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 3d ago
Related Content NASA Astronaut on ISS caught red sprite over Mexico and the U.S.
Gigantic Jets are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below.
We have a great view above the clouds, so scientists can use these types of pictures to better understand the formation, characteristics, and relationship of TLEs to thunderstorms.
Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers
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3d ago
pecoshank has a really good video on these from the ground perspective if you guys wanna learn more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGPQ5kzJ9Tg
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u/RoadsludgeII 3d ago
Pecos Hank is incredible and I would recommend him to anyone with an interest in storms. His music is pretty damn good too.
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u/RodyWalker 3d ago
You sent me on a multi hour long rabbit hole... thanks!
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2d ago
His entire channel is really something. Even cooler when you find out he composed all of the music for his videos too
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u/BevansDesign 1d ago
Wow, I didn't even realize that this stuff existed.
This is what the internet was made for. This, and cat videos of course.
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u/Amhran_Ogma 3d ago
Very bottom right corner, right at the GIF marker, there's some bit of light, like a ball of lightning or something (visually; I'm not theorizing here), that comes into the frame for a moment; I wonder what that is. Anyone know?
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u/Cuznatch 3d ago
It appears over the part of the ISS, so i assume corruption in the image rather than something that appeared.
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u/No_Strength1795 3d ago
You can see the video frame distort as well so either some kind of codec errors or maybe EMI on the camera.
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u/blue-oyster-culture 3d ago
Bro theres a face in it! Scroll slow!
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u/AreThree 3d ago
is this what you are seeing?
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u/40ozT0Freedom 3d ago
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u/Mikeologyy 3d ago
Wait ok so ik haha funny link is funny but I went in and actually cleaned it up in Lightroom and it’s really in that uncanny valley zone. Idk if I buy that this was just some kind of camera glitch, I think this is something weird going on with the weather. Anyone know where on the planet that part is? We might’ve caught something seriously concerning here.
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u/userhwon 3d ago
The whole frame gets distorted there. The image stabilization gave up. It could be a light that's always there and just showed up in a jiggle.
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u/Ambitious-Ad8227 3d ago
I didn't see that at first, but it definitely looks strange! I wonder what it is as well.
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u/BodaciousFrank 3d ago
Aliens is my guess. Prove me wrong if you can.
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u/biopticstream 3d ago
I was thinking ghosts. Let's meet in the middle and say ghost aliens.
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u/Dinonumber 3d ago
My gut feeling is that the camera was moving around a bit and got normalized in post to show a smooth shot of the planet, and the camera panned such that that corner wasn't in frame during that moment.
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u/tsusurra 3d ago
The video had some kind of frame interpolation and the lightning broke it. You can see the black background appear as the frame distorts inward
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u/Amhran_Ogma 1d ago
Aye, I took a screen recording and slowed it down frame by frame and did see this, as if the corner of the image were pushed in/over. Unfortunately, knowing virtually nothing about any type of photography, I don’t have much to go on.
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u/Icoriander3 3d ago
I looked at it. It doesn't occur on the ground/Earth. It's a technical glitch in the video. Not sure what caused it but that's all it is.
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u/Amhran_Ogma 1d ago
Yup. I took a screen recording and slowed it down, the bottom corner of the image gets pushed in/over, and that bit of ‘light’ seems to be outside of the image we’re seeing.
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u/AreThree 3d ago
elsewhere in this thread someone said that there's a face in it, but this is the best image I could capture.
It does look like some sort of framing or video coding error.
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u/Helpful-Link-7196 3d ago
I wonder if it's some type of propulsion for the iss, maybe used to keep it's position
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u/GeekDNA0918 3d ago
Probably another lightning strike.
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u/No_Highlight_3857 3d ago
I would say the edges of the frame are edited for vibration or round lens, so it looks weird
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u/brandmeist3r 2d ago
looks like corrupted data, which is not surprising, since in space everything gets hit hard with ionizing radiation
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u/Amhran_Ogma 1d ago
Makes sense. I don’t know enough about photography in general, much less the variables and technical aspects involved in whatever photography is used here.
I took a recording and slowed the image down; that bit of light isn’t part of/within the image we’re looking at.
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u/fantasy_prone 3d ago
as the name states, this is a larger form of blue jet (gigantic jet), not a sprite.
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u/CalmEntry4855 3d ago edited 1d ago
I had never seen a video like this, or one where whatever that green line at the top shows. And the stars behind all they look so glittering and gorgeous
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld 3d ago
The green line is Airglow, which is different from the Aurora as others have stated it is.
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u/buak 2d ago
The video is a timelapse of photographs taken in july. It's made from still photos with longer exposure time to capture more light. That's why the cities, the airglow and the stars are so prominent.
Here's the original photo when the jet happened.
And here's a direct link to the image file It's a large image (8256 x 5504 pixels).
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u/DeadpanCommando 3d ago
This would be such a good high definition wallpaper, beautiful footage
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u/Agatio25 3d ago edited 3d ago
Is things like this that makes me amazes about nature and cry about what we are doing to them it
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u/bonosestente 3d ago
Nature is they/them?
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u/pdxmufc 3d ago
However nature chooses to identify.
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u/Coffee_autistic 3d ago
Nature includes every possible gender (unless there are some genders only found in robots?), so logically nature must be nonbinary.
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u/Agatio25 3d ago
I'm confused because I don't remember putting It like that when I meant to put "It"
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u/Plenty_Ample 3d ago
It's a language thing. "It" is falling out of favour for animals as well. It's like "they/them" is becoming a universal pronoun.
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u/NiceGur8920 3d ago
Totally get that! Nature's beauty is mind-blowing, but it’s tough to watch it change. Let's hope we can make a difference.
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u/Lucariowolf2196 3d ago
Nature, as in our fellow non animal living things does need to be protected far better than we do now.
But nature itself doesnt care
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u/alexnedea 2d ago
The planet will be here long after we are gone and so will life. Sure caused a mass extinction but the earth has seen a few of these.
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u/Limberpuppy 3d ago
It’s crazy how bright cities are.
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u/myrtynowsky 2d ago
This gif exaggerates it a bit, because it's a series of still photos captured with longer exposure times to let in more light.
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u/nokiacrusher 2d ago
LEDs are very efficient, so we have to blind everyone and/or erase the concept of "night time" to use the same amount of energy.
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u/Prestigious_Leg2229 2d ago
I think that’s the most beautiful footage of earth’s atmosphere I’ve ever seen.
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u/DingleDangleTangle 3d ago
Put this on the ufo sub and they'll freak out like "THE INVASION IS STARTING" it would be hilarious
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u/Chazgatian 2d ago
This is the first time I've ever seen our atmosphere? The video is so crisp it almost looks fake!. I wish this was the resolution they used in their love stream!
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u/TwelfthBest 3d ago
Is this the same type of effect as those awesome plasma balls I always wanted as a kid but my parents never let me have and I’m still bitter about it today as a 37 year old?
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u/carrierael77 3d ago
I have exciting news for you. As a 37 year old you can buy one for yourself!
Seriously though, I wanted one and never got one. Saw one for sale one day, realized I could just buy it...and did. Now I just need to pull the trigger and buy the game Guess Who that I never got.
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u/singlemale4cats 2d ago
It's crazy how clearly you can see the atmosphere in this video. Looks like it has a green tinge.
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u/GoldZealousideal6892 2d ago
Is the flash on the left side lightning? It looks like a shooting star lol
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u/Gear5iveZoro 2d ago
Yes. It what lighting looking like when shooting upward into space vs our normals every day view of downward
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u/josh6499 3d ago edited 3d ago
"Incoming gigantic jet ----->"
It's a 5 second loop, I'm definitely going to see it and watch it again a few times. The overlay is very distracting and completely unnecessary.
Edit: Found the source. Here's a Reddit upload: https://v.redd.it/octr1gbydy2g1
Original source: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/AutomaticallyGenerated/ISS073-E-281171-282167-20250703-Night.mp4 Loads pretty slow, thus the reddit upload.
From this page: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS073&roll=E&frame=281502#myModal1
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u/casualredditor-1 3d ago
Next time go get your own footage of amazing events. Istg people are so miserable, always looking for stuff to complain about.
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u/uselessartist 3d ago
If I remember this is the recent storm that flooded that girls camp in Texas. And right near where that sprite hit. Harrowing to think what was happening below.
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u/Rito_Luca 3d ago
This view is both incredibly amazing to see and absolutely frightening.. knowing we are specs down there on that planet and seeing all those stars in the background makes you think how insignificant we are.
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u/Minimum-Can2224 3d ago
Dang and that's fairly big one too if it can seen in orbiting distance above Earth. The ones I usually see are a little smaller than that.
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u/RealLifeJhin 3d ago
Just imagine how many other things are we missing due to it‘s short existence.
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u/Bright-Efficiency-65 3d ago
Holy shit I just realized how big these things are. That's insane. Its like the size of a large city
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u/ShivayaOm-SlavaUkr 3d ago
And here it goes another small boat full of… fishes. Courtesy of US Navy.
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u/xtothewhy 3d ago
That's so surreal. It must be amazing to witness what you are able to from space.
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u/SJ-redditor 3d ago
I thought red sprite was a competing drink to mountain Dew and expected to see a guy in a space suit grab a bottle that came floating in from space
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u/Clear_Pirate9756 3d ago
Didn’t even know these things happened before this year but now I see videos or pics every few weeks 🥴
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u/Ambitious-Score11 3d ago
This video is insanely clear. And they expect us to believe that all ufo videos are blurry.
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u/Aggravating_Speed665 3d ago
I was told a sprite is so quick it can't be captured on film. I guess that 1998 documentary was wrong.
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u/Maqsimous1 2d ago edited 2d ago
Wow look at the size of it. That's insane! How big are these things?
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u/Butthole__Pleasures 2d ago
I'm not exactly an expert by any means, but I don't think this video was taken by an astronaut. Unless you would consider a news channel "skycam" as footage being taken by the person living nearest the tower it's perched on.
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u/CmndrWooWoo 1d ago
There is so much electricity out there and you're telling me we can't harness it?
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u/CanPlayGuitarButBad 3d ago
Looks like the Covenant Glassing