Lightning bolts into space.
Lightning bolts into space.
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On May 14, 2018, an amateur scientist captured a super lightning over Oklahoma, it is not the first time that one of these colossal rays that extend into space has been photographed, but this time the event happened in a place with a mapping system nearby VHF radios, within range of two next-generation weather radar locations and also in an area accessible to instruments the geostationary operational environmental network satellites of the noaa, national office of the united states oceanic and atmospheric administration .
Researchers from various universities and scientific institutions participated in the study, including the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain, the data collected showed that the discharge began its propagation just above the top of the storm cloud, reaching the lightning to the ionosphere lower than an altitude between 80 to 96 kilometers, which is practically the limit with space, the karman line where space officially begins is located at about 100 kilometers high.
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Little is known about these phenomena, they are unpredictable and occur beyond the sight of most people because they happen above the cloud cover, giant jets have been observed and studied during the last two decades, but because there is no a specific observation system to look for them data collections have been rare.
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The researchers speculate that something may be blocking the flow of charge down or into other clouds as normal lightning occurs. Records of the Oklahoma event show little thunderstorm activity before the gigantic lightning bolt shot into space. so for some reason there is a suppression of discharges from the clouds to the ground there is a build up of negative charge and then the conditions at the top of the storm weaken the upper charge layer which is usually positive and in the absence of discharges of normal rays we see the gigantic jet that can in this case relieve the accumulation of excess negative charge in the cloud.
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