Initially thought to be a ‘sprite’, it turns out that the luminous phenomenon was a much rarer ‘Jet’, acording to NASA. It was the fourth of July, and up in space, orbiting the Earth in the International Space Station, Nichole Ayers captured an image that is so unusual, it seems fake. Like massive electric fireworks, it detonated in the thin air up to 55 miles in altitude. Earth.com reported: “These brief spectacles – blue jets, red sprites, violet halos, ultraviolet rings – are collectively known as transient luminous events, or TLEs.” What was once pilot’s folklore began to be studied by ‘eyes in space’. “The International Space Station (ISS) has changed that by offering an unobstructed seat above the storms, where specialized cameras and sensors…
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