Fortunately, thanks to cutting-edge mapping technologies, researchers at Georgia Tech were able to get a detailed look at the shape of the beastly bolt, offering them valuable insights into the phenomenon.
"We were able to map this gigantic jet in three dimensions with really high-quality data," said Levi Boggs, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, co-author of a new paper published in the journal Science Advances, in the statement.
READ MORE: New information on 'gigantic jet' lightning bursts that reach toward space [Georgia Tech]
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