Jovian Sprite (Illustration)
This illustration shows what a sprite could look like in Jupiter's atmosphere. Named after a mischievous, quick-witted character in English folklore, sprites last for only a few milliseconds. They feature a central blob of light with long tendrils of light extending down toward the ground and upward. In Earth's upper atmosphere, their interaction with nitrogen give sprites a reddish hue. At Jupiter, where the predominance of hydrogen in the upper atmosphere would likely give them a blue hue. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23990
- Date
- 2020-10-27
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- illustration (NASA artwork)
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"Jovian Sprite (Illustration)" (2020-10-27). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA23990Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 22159.
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