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On July 3rd, astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare Gigantic jet from the ISS. These upward directed electrical discharges extend 90-100 km high into the atmosphere.

I processed this image from the RAW file, adjusting the white balance, contrast and noise reduction.

Full resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2rhxqcK

Image Credit: Nichole Ayers / NASA JSC / ESRS / Simeon Schmauß

#ISS #lightning #thunderstorm #Photography #giganticjet #tle #transientluminousevent #NASA

Photograph taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers, capturing a rare gigantic jet — an upward lightning discharge shooting from a thunderstorm about 90-100 km high into the upper atmosphere. The jet appears as a vivid purple and blue column of light that finely branches out toward the top where it turns into a vivid red color. It's rising from a brightly illuminated cloud top, surrounded by diffuse city lights from Northern Mexico and South Texas. Behind it is the curved limb of Earth with a green band from the airglow layer indicating the edge of the atmosphere. A portion of the space station’s robotic arm is visible in the foreground.

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Gigantic jet TLE above Mexico

On July 3rd, astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a gigantic jet from the ISS. These rare upward directed electrical discharges extend ~90-100 km high into the mesosphere. The jet originated from a thunderstorm over Northern Mexico, with city lights from South Texas and the green airglow layer visible along Earth’s limb. I processed this image from the RAW file, adjusting the color profile, white balance and contrast and applied Lightroom's machine learning denoise with low strength. The RAW was provided to me by Frankie Lucena, his analysis of the event, correlating it to measurements from the Geostationary Lightning mapper and ELF-VLF radio signals can be found here: spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=224355 City annotations referenced from Riccardo Rossi: x.com/RikyUnreal/status/1942367538714734609 Original image listing in the NASA archive: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS073&amp... Credit: Nichole Ayers / NASA JSC / ESRS / Simeon Schmauß

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@stim3on@fosstodon.org · 7 months ago

On July 3rd, astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare Gigantic jet from the ISS. These upward directed electrical discharges extend 90-100 km high into the atmosphere.

I processed this image from the RAW file, adjusting the white balance, contrast and noise reduction.

Full resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2rhxqcK

Image Credit: Nichole Ayers / NASA JSC / ESRS / Simeon Schmauß

#ISS #lightning #thunderstorm #Photography #giganticjet #tle #transientluminousevent #NASA

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Gigantic jet TLE above Mexico

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@stim3on@fosstodon.org · 6 days ago

You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a Gigantic Jet #TLE from space?

Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 as part of the DTU/ESA Thor-Davis experiment.

[WARNING: Video contains flashing lights!]

https://youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY

Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps
Processing: Simeon Schmauß

#space #ISS #thunderstorm #lightning #giganticjet #transientluminousevent #nasa #esa

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@stim3on@fosstodon.org · 6 days ago

You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a Gigantic Jet #TLE from space?

Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 as part of the DTU/ESA Thor-Davis experiment.

[WARNING: Video contains flashing lights!]

https://youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY

Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps
Processing: Simeon Schmauß

#space #ISS #thunderstorm #lightning #giganticjet #transientluminousevent #nasa #esa

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