从地球上看：巨大的喷气闪电
(原标题: Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning)
2025-09-09
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从地球升起的是什么？7月初，宇航员妮可·艾尔斯在国际空间站上绕地球飞行时，看到了一种不同寻常的闪电从地球上升起：一架巨大的喷气式飞机。强大的喷流以红、白、蓝三色出现在特色图像的中心附近。巨型喷气闪电在过去的25年里才为人所知。大气喷流与雷暴有关，并向上延伸到地球的电离层。画面的下半部分显示的是夜晚的地球，地球稀薄的大气层被气辉染成了绿色。城市的灯光是可见的，有时会消散，但通常会在云层中产生漫射的白光。画面的顶部显示了黑暗夜空中遥远的星星。巨型喷流的性质及其与其他类型的瞬态发光事件（TLEs）（如蓝色喷流和红色精灵）的可能联系仍然是研究的活跃主题。
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What's that rising up from the Earth? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early in July, astronaut Nicole Ayers saw an unusual type of lightning rising up from the Earth: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears near the center of the featured image in red, white, and blue. Giant jet lightning has only been known about for the past 25 years. The atmospheric jets are associated with thunderstorms and extend upwards towards Earth's ionosphere. The lower part of the frame shows the Earth at night, with Earth's thin atmosphere tinted green from airglow. City lights are visible, sometimes resolved, but usually creating diffuse white glows in intervening clouds. The top of the frame reveals distant stars in the dark night sky. The nature of gigantic jets and their possible association with other types of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) such as blue jets and red sprites remain active topics of research.