Transient Luminous Events: Blue Jets & Red Sprites

SciNews Transient Luminous Event (TLE) are flashes and glows that appear above storms that are results of activity occurring in and below those storms. Blue Jets pulse from the tops of intense thunderstorms and reach up toward the edge of space. Red sprites are glows in the upper atmosphere, tied to the presence of large lightning flashes but not attached to the clouds themselves. Video recorded by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen in September 2015 Credits: Science@NASA/ESA Profuse activity of blue electrical discharges at the tops of thunderstorms Olivier Chanrion, Torsten Neubert, Andreas Mogensen, Yoav Yair, Martin Stendel, Rajesh Singh,Devendraa Siingh Geophysical Research Letters DOI: