BLUE JETS – LIGHTNING THAT SHOOT UP TO SPACE
Thunderstorms produce some amazing effects known as blue jets, red sprites and elves. Lightnings that shoot up to space, electrical discharges from the top of the clouds to the outer…
AIRGLOW – ATMOSPHERE’S FAINT LIGHT EMISSION
Have you noticed a characteristic green glow at Earth’s limp seen from space? That’s light emitted from exited atoms in the upper atmosphere. Green colour comes from oxygen atoms and…
SPRITE LIGHTNING
There is a strange kind of lightning, only discovered in 1989, that is purely understood. It is called SPRITE* – lightning that shoot up to space. Εlectrical discharges from the top…