Lightning Blue Jet

Blue jets are a burst of electrical lightning which travel upwards from the clouds into the Earths atmosphere.

Lightning blue jet. The International Space Stations Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor ASIM observatory caught a single blue jet upward-shooting lightning from a. These types of lightning called red sprites and blue jets are tricky to photograph. Scientists have finally gotten a clear view of the spark that sets off a weird type of lightning called a blue jet.

They ascend high into a layer of the atmosphere called the stratosphere. I was up on the roof of Coconut Grove Holiday Apartments Darwin Australia taking pictures of this storm 100 km away yesterday 27 Feb 2017. When storm clouds send lightning crackling in jagged streaks across the sky or produce a thundering bolt that strikes the ground another otherworldly phenomenon sometimes erupts.

Blue jets zip upward from thunderclouds into the stratosphere reaching altitudes up to about 50 kilometers in less than a second. In less than a second a blue jet can reach about 50 kilometers 31 miles above the. Scientists on the International Space Station spotted a bright-blue lightning bolt shooting upward from thunderclouds.

Whereas ordinary lightning excites a medley of gases in the lower. Lightning bolts usually are seen zipping from thunderclouds down toward the ground. But blue jets shoot up from clouds.

Sometimes during a thunderstorm you can glimpse red and blue lightning in the sky. Traditional lightning is interacting with a wide variety of gases on its way to the ground. Smith Two types of lightning a red sprite and a blue jet in the skies above Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.

Blue jets also occur at high altitude triggered by a discharge of electricity from the positively-charged upper portion of a storm cloud to the negatively-charged cloud top according to a paper. Blue jets can be difficult to spot from the ground since the electrical. Lightning Jet features a handle for easy play opening minifigure cockpit spring-loaded shooter trigger-activated rotating electro-disc adjustable wings and lots of antennae.