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"textContent": "submitted by Delta_V to space\n99 points | 5 comments\nhttps://www.earth.com/news/nasa-extraordinary-event-photo-storms-red-sprites-from-iss-astronauts/\n\n> …A mysterious phenomenon known as “red sprites” randomly occur in the mesosphere, hanging like upside-down jellyfish for a scant ten milliseconds. Blue jets spear from cloud tops toward the stratosphere with eerie, silent urgency.\n\n> Both events happen so fast and high that capturing their details was nearly impossible. Yet ASIM can spot them from orbit.\n\n> One study used its footage and ground instruments to pinpoint the altitude of a single blue jet. This confirmed that these upward bolts really do punch beyond the weather layer we know.\n\n> Those measurements feed directly into storm-charging models, which in turn inform aviation guidelines about where dangerous electrical fields might lurk…",
"title": "NASA shares photos of an extraordinary event witnessed by astronauts on the space station"
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