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Credit & Copyright: Hung-Hsi Chang
Explanation:
Yes, but can your lightning bolt do this?
While flying from
Munich to
Singapore
earlier this month,
an industrious passenger took images of a passing lightning storm and
caught something unexpected:
gigantic jet lightning.
The jet was captured on a single 3.2-second exposure above
Bhadrak,
India.
Although the
gigantic jet
appears connected to the airplane's wing, it likely started in a more distant
thundercloud, and
can be seen extending upwards towards
Earth's ionosphere.
The nature of gigantic jets
and their possible association with other types of
Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) such as
blue jets and
red
sprites remains an active topic of research.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: lightning
Publications with words: lightning
See also:
- APOD: 2024 August 13 Á Giant Jet from the International Space Station
- APOD: 2024 June 18 Á Gigantic Jets over Himalayan Mountains
- APOD: 2023 October 2 Á Sprite Lightning in High Definition
- APOD: 2023 September 18 Á The Red Sprite and the Tree
- APOD: 2023 June 25 Á Lightning on Jupiter
- APOD: 2023 April 17 Á ELVES Lightning over Italy
- Star Trails and Lightning over the Pyrenees