On July 24, Giant Jets were captured by the Gemini Cloud Camera atop Manua Kea, Hawaii. Giant Jets are a type of ascending lightning that is very rare to see. It is a type of phenomenon similar to Sprites, but more powerful and easier to see with the naked eye due to their large magnitudes. The existence of the Goblins, that's what this type of ray is called, and that they have had multiple names over time to be cataloged, they are so atypical that their existence had always been doubted.
Sprites, were not first registered until 1989, by physicist John R. Winkler and his group of scientists at the University of Minnesota. And even though the first visual evidence was found back then, it was not until "just" 2002 that a Giant Jet was capturedReports of these phenomena actually date back to 1886, but they had never been officially witnessed. Yet, in theory, they existed, as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Wilson demonstrated in 1925.
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As shown in the video, you can "fleetingly" witness the three jets that resulted. The highest reached 80km, to the ionosphere.
This type of lightning occurs above the clouds or cumulonimbus in intense storms in the part of the atmosphere called the mesosphere. In the lower area they have a blue filamentous area that can reach 30km. At the top it is like a bright flash of red and orange color. They can reach up to 90km in altitude, and in width up to 50kmThis phenomenon is especially interesting for the scientific community, as already mentioned in other analyses on atmospheric phenomena related to visible lights in atmospheric phenomena.
They are very rare, but there are exceptions where storms occur in large numbers. They always last between 3 and 10 milliseconds. Due to these characteristics, their study is very difficult. When they originate, they do so at 1.600km / s. And due to its short duration, it is almost impossible to film them with normal cameras.
