'Elves' and 'blue jet' lightning in Earth's stratosphere spotted from space
'Elves' and 'blue jet' lightning in Earth's stratosphere spotted from space
Jan 26, 2021
SPACE.comElizabeth Howell
The Sydney Vivid Festival is wrapping up this weekend, but if you're lucky you could still spot some 'transient luminous events' up in the sky: Blue jets☄️, sprites🧚 and elves🧝 are all types of 'ionospheric lightning'⚡—lighting that discharges from the top of thunderstorms, up into the ionosphere. Our meteorologist Dr Adam Morgan and ABC News' Nate Byrne explain in this new video—jointly produced by ABC Science and the Bureau of Meteorology. Read more about these and other kinds of lightning i
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The Sydney Vivid Festival is wrapping up this weekend, but if you're lucky you could still spot some 'transient luminous events' up in the sky: Blue jets☄️, sprites🧚 and elves🧝 are all types of 'ionospheric lightning'⚡—lighting that discharges from the top of thunderstorms, up into the ionosphere. Our meteorologist Dr Adam Morgan and ABC News' Nate Byrne explain in this new video—jointly produced by ABC Science and the Bureau of Meteorology. Read more about these and other kinds of lightning i
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⚡ Blue Jets: Lightning That Strikes Up! ⚡ “Blue jet” may sound like some kind of fictional superhero. But these jets — produced during thunderstorms — are real, though very rare and hard to spot. Unlike regular lightning, blue jets shoot upward from thunderstorms, reaching 50 km (30 miles) above the Earth in less than a second! 🌌 🌩️ Blue jets start as a “normal” lightning discharges between a thundercloud’s upper positive charge region and a negative screening layer above it. The positive lead
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⚡ Blue Jets: Lightning That Strikes Up! ⚡ “Blue jet” may sound like some kind of fictional superhero. But these jets — produced during thunderstorms — are real, though very rare and hard to spot. Unlike regular lightning, blue jets shoot upward from thunderstorms, reaching 50 km (30 miles) above the Earth in less than a second! 🌌 🌩️ Blue jets start as a “normal” lightning discharges between a thundercloud’s upper positive charge region and a negative screening layer above it. The positive lead
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What are blue jets, elves and red sprites? These bizarre-sounding things are very difficult to observe from the surface of Earth, but as a new science paper reports, the European Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) observatory on the International Space Station is helping scientists find answers 👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Genesis_of_blue_lightning_into_the_stratosphere_detected_from_the_International_Space_Station | ESA - European Space Agen
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What are blue jets, elves and red sprites? These bizarre-sounding things are very difficult to observe from the surface of Earth, but as a new science paper reports, the European Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) observatory on the International Space Station is helping scientists find answers 👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Genesis_of_blue_lightning_into_the_stratosphere_detected_from_the_International_Space_Station | ESA - European Space Agen
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