Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Upside-down lightning and mystery blue glimpses caught on film


A blue glow in the clouds, as seen from the window of the ISS

We’ve caught a “glimpse”

ESA/NASA/Iriss/DTU Space




It’s the ultimate light show that happens above clouds during thunderstorms.


Weird lights up to a dozen kilometres long called blue jets, mysterious blue blobs called glimpses and upward slithers of red light called C-sprites have all been recorded from the International Space Station.


Dutch astronaut Andreas Mogensen captured the footage and photos, which  were presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna last week.


“We wanted to see what happens above a thunderstorm,”…



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Upside-down lightning and mystery blue glimpses caught on film

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