ART, RED SPRITES AND THE NASA SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA/MEIDEX

摘要

Sprites are fleeting, luminous shapes that shoot into the upper atmosphere during large thunderstorms as lightning simultaneously reaches down to Earth. For at least a century, scientists have attempted to confirm and explain the existence of sprites with visual images and data. Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment -MEIDEX is a joint project between the Israeli Space Agency and NASA that was executed on the Space Shuttle Columbia mission in January 2003. The MEIDEX sprite campaign was limited in duration and was considered a secondary science objective for the primary dust experiment. This paper will discuss the history of my art & science collaboration based on Red sprites with an emphasis on my artwork derived from the MEIDEX mission.