Mysterious, Upside-Down Lightning May Not Be a Freak Phenomenon After All – ScienceAlert

Of all the weather phenomena our magnificent planet throws at us, lightning is one of the most spectacular – and the most mysterious. Even though storms are a regular occurrence, we’re still at pains to understand and describe their crackling electrical discharges generated in the sky.
One kind of lightning is so strange and rare, in fact, that we didn’t even have concrete evidence it existed until 1990, when researchers identified its signature ‘rocket-like’ motion in video shot from NASA’s Space…

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