Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor in the United Kingdom, and has a degree in physics and astrophysics from the University of Manchester. He's the author of 'The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence' (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020) and has written articles on astronomy, space, physics and astrobiology for a multitude of magazines and websites.
To try to rectify this lack of understanding, Burcu Kosar of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is leading a NASA-funded joint project between NASA and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Called"Spritacular," this citizen-science project is the first of its kind and aims to collate hundreds or even thousands of recordings of sprites in action.
"People capture wonderful images of sprites, but they're shared sporadically over the Internet and most of the scientific community is unaware of these captures," Kosar said in a."Spritacular will bridge this gap by creating the first crowdsourced database of sprites and other TLEs that is accessible and readily available for scientific research."
Experienced"sprite chasers" will be on hand to provide educational resources and support to members of the public uploading their hard-won images. As the database of images of different types of sprites grows, users will be able to compare their own images with others.
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