Transient Luminous Events: The Electrifying Phenomenon Illuminating our Skies (Credit: NASA)5/31/2019 Upper atmospheric lightning, also known as a transient luminous event, is an electrifying phenomenon that is not easily studied in the same way as “normal” tropospheric lightning that occurs in a typical thunderstorm. The European Space Agency Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) aboard the International Space Station is a collection of optical cameras and photometers along with a x and gamma ray detector that is used to detect the electrical discharges from upper atmospheric thunderstorms that make up transient luminous events. But what exactly are the different types of transient luminous events?
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