sprite: Lightning can cause red, jellyfish-shaped
 flashes as big as 48 by 48 km to appear
 above thunderclouds. These are called
 sprites (air spirits), after their elusiveness,
 and are actually clusters of balls of plasma.
 First Color Image of a Sprite
 UT 0400 2010) ww2
 4 Jul 94
 100
 80
 60F
 40
 20
 Universty of A
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 Altitude, km

 Thermosphere
 100
 Elf
 Mesosphere
 Sprite
 50
 Stratosphere
 Blue Jet
 10
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 Troposphere
 Lightning
 Altitude (km)
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