Giant Jet from the International Space Station

Posted on August 14, 2024  •  1 minutes  • 118 words

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What’s that on the horizon?When circling the Earth on the early , astronaut saw an unusual type of lightning just beyond the Earth’s edge: a gigantic jet.The powerful jet appears on the left of the in red and blue. has only been known about for the past 23 years.The atmospheric jets are associated with thunderstorms and extend upwards towards . The lower part of shows the , with Earth’s thin atmosphere tinted green from airglow. are visible,sometimes resolved, but usually creating diffuse white glows in intervening clouds. The top of reveals distant stars in the dark night sky.The nature of and their possible association with other types of (TLEs) such as and remains an .