中文翻譯:
嘿，小朋友！你們知道嗎？在太空中，有一位太空人叫Nicole Ayers，她在國際太空站上看到了非常奇特的現象！她發現了一種特殊的閃電，叫做「巨大噴流」。這種噴流就像超級英雄從地球上升起來一樣！在圖片中，我們可以看到這個巨大噴流，它的顏色是紅色、白色和藍色。這個神奇的現象和雷陣雨有關，會向著地球的高空延伸。圖片的下部分是夜晚的地球，地球的薄薄大氣層發出綠色的光芒，像是在說：“你好，我在這裡！”我們還能看到城市的燈光，像小星星一樣閃亮，雖然有時在雲層中看起來有點模糊。圖片的上面顯示了美麗的星星，閃耀在黑暗的夜空中。科學家們還在研究這些神奇的巨大噴流，希望能瞭解它們和其他類似的現象（像藍色噴流和紅色精靈）之間的關係呢！
原文:
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.
來源:NASA每日圖片
