飛越喜馬拉雅山脈的巨型噴氣式飛機
Gigantic Jets over Himalayan Mountains
來源：Li Xuanhua｜發表日期：2024-06-18
是的，但你的雷暴能做到嗎？圖為上週一場雷暴向中國和不丹的喜馬拉雅山脈噴射出的巨大噴流。這張合成圖捕捉到了相隔僅幾分鐘的四股長噴流。巨型噴流在本世紀才被記錄下來，是一種發生在某些雷暴和雷暴上方的地球電離層之間的閃電放電。 它們是一種不同尋常的閃電，與普通的雲對雲閃電和雲對地閃電有很大不同。巨型噴流的底部類似於雲對地閃電，被稱為藍色噴流，而頂部則類似於高層大氣的紅色精靈。雖然造成巨大噴流的機制和觸發因素仍是一個研究課題，但很明顯，噴流減少了地球大氣層不同部分之間的電荷不平衡。 尋找巨型噴流的一個好方法是從清晰的位置觀察一場強大但遙遠的雷暴。
原文：Yes, but can your thunderstorm do this? Pictured here are gigantic jets shooting up from a thunderstorm last week toward the Himalayan Mountains in China and Bhutan. The composite image captured four long jets that occurred only minutes apart. Gigantic jets, documented only in this century, are a type of lightning discharge that occurs between some thunderstorms and the Earth's ionosphere high above them. They are an unusual type of lightning that is much different from regular cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. The bottoms of gigantic jets appear similar to a cloud-to-above strike called blue jets, while the tops appear similar to upper-atmosphere red sprites. Although the mechanism and trigger that cause gigantic jets remains a topic of research, it is clear that the jets reduce charge imbalance between different parts of Earth's atmosphere. A good way to look for gigantic jets is to watch a powerful but distant thunderstorm from a clear location.
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