{"id":746,"date":"2003-07-01T03:50:11","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:35","slug":"new-lightning-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"new lightning discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The sky&#8217;s not the limit for lightning discoveries:  In the past few years, scientists have observed new high-altitude  electrical phenomena called sprites, elves, and blue jets. Now Han-Tzong  Su of National Cheng Kung University of Taiwan and his colleagues  report in the June 25 <em>Nature<\/em> that they&#8217;ve observed another new type of  lightning &#8212; &#8220;gigantic jets.&#8221; The researchers used low-light cameras to  capture images of the gargantuan electrical discharges shooting upward  from the tops of thunderclouds over the South China Sea. The jets ascend  to the ionosphere &#8212; the charged portion of the upper atmosphere &#8212; to  form vast 50-mile-tall shapes resembling carrots or trees that last less  than a second. By feeding negative charge from the thundercloud to the  ionosphere, the researchers believe such jets may have a strong  influence on what they call &#8220;Earth&#8217;s global electric circuit.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 7\/01\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky&#8217;s not the limit for lightning discoveries: In the past few years, scientists have observed new high-altitude electrical phenomena called sprites, elves, and blue jets. Now Han-Tzong Su of National Cheng Kung University of Taiwan and his colleagues report &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}