[ForGod'sSake]

Not sure about those jets escaping from the Earth, can you point me in the right direction? :')

My first search brought me to some stills on this site that appear to be very close to the videos I saw. The videos are much more interesting, so I'll keep looking...

Gigantic Jets Observed between a Thundercloud and the Ionosphere

FGS

[SunkenCiv]

Oooh, interesting... a wild uneducated guess... the dim blue version is due to particle acceleration from the electrical currents (see Asimov's short story, "The Billiard Ball", which he wished that he'd named "Dirty Pool"); the red versions are probably infrared from molecules and atoms heated by the same currents. As I said, wild...

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