Super-interesting: ionospheric lightning has very different causes from our usual stratospheric/tropospheric lightning. The ionosphere lightning can make it hard for low-orbit satellites to detect signal from the GPS satellites, which are also low orbit, because the line-of-sight may pass through the lightning region
Originally shared by Peter Vogel
Little-understood “upward” lightning creates havoc for some satellites.
ESA Swarm satellites lose contact with earth as they cross equatorial plane. Lightning may be to blame.
Scientific paper (abstract): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016SW001439/abstract
Mary Skinner you sure can. The pictures look quite cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=lightning+from+space&tbm=isch
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I have one question… WHY was i notified of this!?!
sameeee why
Cool
Very good question
Valeria Custis I believe not. This ionospheric lightning is nothing new, and the conditions needed for it are simply caused by normal sunlight hitting the high atmosphere and creating ions. It probably happens on many planets, not just Earth. We don’t get that kind of lightning down in the stratosphere or troposphere because the upper atmosphere (including ozone layer) protect us form much of that ionizing sunlight.
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