Now that's a crowdsourcing effort we can get behind.
n modern photos until 1989, when University of Minnesota researchers captured them "by sheer accident" while testing low-light film equipment ahead of a rocket launch.
"It wasn't a very high resolution or fast camera — they just captured two luminous blobs above a nearby thunderstorm," Kosar illuminated. "The whole field was kickstarted because a camera was pointed in the right direction at the right time." After scientists dubbed these beautiful phantasms "sprites" after the mythical beings from European folklore, the naming convention stuck, with other scientists naming fellow TLEs things like Elves,While there's now documentation of these phenomena, scientists still struggle to understand why they happen — and are looking to NASA-enthused citizen scientists and photographers for help figuring that out.
"The broader goal of Spritacular is to foster a mutual exchange between observers of TLEs and the scientific community," the NASA update notes, "and to inspire citizen scientists all around the world to participate in the investigation of these elusive events."
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