Space Station Captures Amazing Footage of Lightning From Above - Futurism

The video, which can be found in a European Space Agency press release, shows an unusual phenomenon called blue jets — blue-colored lightning blasts that shoot upward from storm clouds into the highest regions of the stratosphere.

Then, after a few quick flashes of light, the video shows what scientists call “elves,” or rings of electrical activity that burst outward from a storm way up in the ionosphere.

Seeing blue jets and elves from space is difficult since they pass so quickly, and spotting them from Earth is nearly impossible due to cloud cover.