This can potentially impact communication technologies. Understanding Blue Jet Lightning is important because such events could affect the theories of how radio waves travel through the air. In the picture below one can see the gigantic blue lightning seen over India recorded by NASA. But turbulent mixing high in a cloud may bring oppositely charged regions within about a kilometre of each other, creating very short but powerful bursts of electric current.”
The researchers have gone to say that the blue flashes were accompanied by UV light flashes which are also called ELVES.Īs per Neubert, “Normal lightning bolts are formed by discharges between oppositely charged regions of a cloud - or a cloud and the ground - many kilometres apart. The blue jet that was seen over Nauru was seen through optical cameras, photometers, and an X-ray and gamma-ray detector from the International Space Station. This then briefly equalizes both opposing charges which result in a bright blue discharge of static electricity. The blue jets occur when some positively charged upper part of any cloud interacts with a negatively charged layer present immediately above it. The blue jet crossed an altitude of almost 32 miles above sea level. Each of the flashes recorded lasted between 10 and 20 milliseconds.It was recorded from near the island of Nauru in the Pacific Ocean. It was only in 2019, the instruments on the International Space Station (ISS) recorded five blue flashes and a blue jet that shot into space from a storm cloud.This happens because they are brief and are typically hidden due to clouds. The blue jets can generally not be seen from the ground but for under rarest circumstances.It is upward-shooting lightning from a thunderstorm cell, along with four elves, (optical and ultraviolet emissions from the bottom of the ionosphere). The International Space Station's Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor- ASIM observatory recently caught a single blue ‘jet’.
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