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Using a Sony digital camera on the roof of a laboratory at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, researchers documented a strange instance of a thunderstorm's electricity tickling the fringes of outer space.
The scientists captured on film a phenomenon known as a blue jet, a lightning-like discharge, as it shot out the top of clouds in an offshore storm.
Other blue jets have been photographed. But this one soared twice as high as any previously recorded, nearly 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth. There, the electrical discharge apparently interacted with the base of the ionosphere, a region of the atmosphere where electrons roam freely after being split up by solar energy.
While one observation does not prove an Earth-to-space connection, Pasko told SPACE.com the blue jet involved a negative charge moving upward, and he suspects blue jets provide the circuit during a thunderstorm to get electricity from one "shell" to another -- Earth's surface to the base of the ionosphere.
Originally posted by XPLodER
While one observation does not prove an Earth-to-space connection, Pasko told SPACE.com the blue jet involved a negative charge moving upward, and he suspects blue jets provide the circuit during a thunderstorm to get electricity from one "shell" to another -- Earth's surface to the base of the ionosphere.
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Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
your google link isn't working
Your title is misleading. I don't see anything here that suggests a circuit being made from the sun to earth and back.
[edit on 9-8-2010 by JohnPhoenix]
Originally posted by citizen smith
Originally posted by XPLodER
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Sounds very similar to the description of the behaviour of an atom and its electron shell-orbits but in a macro rather than quantum scale
As above...so below
Recently, the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) satellites detected "space tornadoes", vortices of electrified plasma rotating faster than 1,600,000 kilometers per hour. These helical storms of electromagnetic energy were found approximately 64,000 kilometers from Earth. The five THEMIS satellites, together with Earth-based stations, verified their connection with the ionosphere.