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                              2019 September 18
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                      Gigantic Jet Lightning over India
                 Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Hung-Hsi Chang

   Explanation: Yes, but can your lightning bolt do this? While flying
   from [4]Munich to [5]Singapore earlier this month, an industrious
   passenger took images of a passing lightning storm and [6]caught
   something unexpected: [7]gigantic jet lightning. The jet was captured
   on a single 3.2-second exposure above [8]Bhadrak, [9]India. Although
   the [10]gigantic jet appears connected to the airplane's wing, it
   likely started in a more distant [11]thundercloud, and can be seen
   extending upwards towards [12]Earth's ionosphere. The nature of
   [13]gigantic jets and their possible association with other types of
   [14]Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) such as [15]blue jets and [16]red
   [17]sprites remains an active topic of research.

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   5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWcxFhkU2U
   6. https://www.flickr.com/photos/135533362@N04/48693452501/
   7. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01759
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadrak
   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160823.html
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_cloud
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  14. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Lightning_sprites.jpg
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