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  2. Upper-atmospheric lightning - Wikipedia

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    Representation of upper-atmospheric lightning and electrical-discharge phenomena Discovery image of a TLE on Jupiter by the NASA Juno probe. [1]Upper-atmospheric lightning and ionospheric lightning are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning and storm clouds.

  3. Glory (optical phenomenon) - Wikipedia

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    Glory around the shadow of a plane. The position of the glory's centre shows that the observer was in front of the wings. A glory is an optical phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the observer's head, caused by sunlight or (more rarely) moonlight interacting with the tiny water droplets that comprise mist or clouds.

  4. Sky Above Clouds - Wikipedia

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    Sky Above Clouds (1960–1977) is a series of eleven cloudscape paintings by the American modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe, produced during her late period.The series of paintings is inspired by O'Keeffe's views from her airplane window during her frequent air travel in the 1950s and early 1960s when she flew around the world.

  5. Astronauts' most jaw-dropping photos from the International ...

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    Wispy noctilucent clouds in Earth's upper atmosphere are illuminated by the sunlight just after sunset above the South Pacific Ocean. NASA Even these gorgeous photos don't do the real views ...

  6. Sprite (lightning) - Wikipedia

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    They often occur in clusters above the troposphere at an altitude range of 50–90 km (31–56 mi). Sporadic visual reports of sprites go back at least to 1886. [ 1 ] They were first photographed on July 4, 1989, [ 2 ] by scientists from the University of Minnesota and have subsequently been captured in video recordings thousands of times.

  7. Volcanic eruptions and air travel: What happens when a plane ...

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    The amount of damage that occurs is dependent on the concentration of volcanic ash, the gas aerosols in the cloud, the length of time the aircraft is in the cloud of volcanic ash and the action ...

  8. VFR over-the-top - Wikipedia

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    The Canadian rules specify that an aircraft may be operated in VFR OTT flight during the cruise portion of the flight during the day, at a vertical distance from clouds of at least 1000 feet. When the aircraft is operated between two cloud layers, the vertical distance between the layers must be at least 5000 feet.

  9. How to see 6 planets align in a rare night-sky parade in ...

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    Rather, since the planets all orbit along or near the plane of our solar system, called the ecliptic, they appear in a line across the sky. It's the same reason the sun always follows the same ...