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Posted on 09/09/2025 12:00:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What's that rising up from the Earth? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early in July, astronaut Nicole Ayers saw an unusual type of lightning rising up from the Earth: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears near the center of the featured image in red, white, and blue. Giant jet lightning has only been known about for the past 25 years. The atmospheric jets are associated with thunderstorms and extend upwards towards Earth's ionosphere. The lower part of the frame shows the Earth at night, with Earth's thin atmosphere tinted green from airglow. City lights are visible, sometimes resolved, but usually creating diffuse white glows in intervening clouds. The top of the frame reveals distant stars in the dark night sky. The nature of gigantic jets and their possible association with other types of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) such as blue jets and red sprites remain active topics of research.
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It’s dripping down from the bottom of the planet. The earth is leaking.
That pic is of course a unique vantage point to see this phenomena. But I have also seen these ‘sprites’ from high altitude flights at night near thunderstorms back in the 80’s when stationed in Florida and flying out of Pensacola or Jacksonville. They can be pretty spectacular up close, well, up close being maybe 10 or 20 miles.
That’s Earth’s planetary defense system destroying an alien fleet.
It works very well, you don’t see evidence of major alien infestations do you?
They would let Godzilla handle it but there’s always a lot of collateral damage.
But will it make Guam capsize? 😁
Pretty incredible picture. That’s one big sprite. I wonder how high it reached.
#2 You flipped the image.
Maybe to those on the ground, but nothing new to pilots. Though, I've never flown at that altitude, I've seen both sprites and jets from a thunderstorm where I was at an angle where I could see the top of the storm.
The atmosphere is commonly thought to extend up to about 60 miles (100km). Of course it fades into space over about a 1000km. Not sure how high these go, i’d guess 60 to 100 miles is possible. The one in the photo looks big enough.
They can’t fool me! That was the ZOT that took out Free Republic last weekend! ;)
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