Strange purple lightning on the cloud in Australia

A photographer captures a strange purple lightning image shot from the top of a thundercloud in Australia.

A photographer captures a strange purple lightning image shot from the top of a thundercloud in Australia.

Photographer Jeff Miles recorded a purple lightning image on top of a cloud near the small town of Pilbara, western Australia, on March 28, according to Sun. The lightning has a striking color on the deep blue sky turning at night.

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Strange purple lightning bursts from the top of the cloud.(Photo: Jeff Miles).

This rare phenomenon is called ionosphere lightning (ionospheric lightning) . This type of clay often forms in thunderclouds causing heavy rain, and it has a much higher height than ordinary lightning.

"The giant ionosphere lightning was only taken with the camera a few times, and tonight I was lucky to see 6 lightning bolts ," Miles said.

The Earth's atmosphere still contains many mysteries. Some natural phenomena happen here so strangely that many scientists aren't even sure they exist.

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The ionosphere lightning often occurs in clouds that cause a lot of rain.(Photo: Jeff Miles).

Earlier this year, an astronaut from the European Space Agency (ESA) filmed a video of red-shaped deformed lightning (red sprite) and blue heterogeneous lightning (blue jet) in Earth's atmosphere.

Andreas Mogensen, the Danish cosmologist, uses the ultra-sensitive camera of the International Space Station (ISS) to record the blue flashes several kilometers above a thunderstorm in Biscay Bay.

Update 16 December 2018
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