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Blue Jet Lightning

January 31 , 2021 1270 days 892 0
  • The Scientists from the International Space Station (ISS) have observed a bright-blue lightning bolt that is shooting upward from the thunderclouds.
  • Such blue jets are hard to observe from the ground because the electrical discharges emerge from the tops of thunderclouds.
  • But from space, one can easily observe the phenomenon.
  • Blue jets are initiated as “normal” lightning discharges.
  • It emerges between the upper positive charge region in a thundercloud and a negative screening layer above the charge region.

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