Blue Jets & Blue Starters - the video
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Uploaded by Eastview605 on Aug 20, 2008
Ten minutes of the 22 minute discovery video showing the first captured images of blue jets and blue starters. They were recorded during an aircraft research campaign conducted in 1994 to study sprites (see the related YouTube clip titled "Red Sprites & Blue Jets"). The TV camera is a monochrome low light CCD with a field of view of 90 degrees. The view is out the right hand side of the plane looking toward an extremely active thunderstorm over Texarkana, Texas/Arkansas. Over a 22 minute period 56 separate blue jets were recorded. Until recently, the events captured from this single storm accounted for more than 90% of the total inventory of blue jets that have been recorded worldwide. The "Blue Starters" seen here were first described in Wescott et al. (1996), "Blue starters: Brief upward discharges from an intense Arkansas thunderstorm", Geophys. Res. Lett., 23(16), pp 2153-2156.
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What defines a blue starter?
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huge blue jet at 3:20
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It is an extremely lightning-intensive storm. In my part of the world we simply do not see storms like this, it's absolutely incredible even without all the amazing shit happening above them!
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ohw, hey! and i forgot the sprites! It seems to me that is somehow different from the other 2... the jets and elves. Is that it?
---Hehehehehehe one yeah ago and I still watching your video!
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its so active! do all storms look like this form the top or is this a really intense storm?
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P3ERSON 1 year ago
@P3ERSON Correct
Eastview605 10 months ago
Great footage! I love this stuff.
What's the source of the music?
bdogi 2 years ago
Gene Wescott selected the music for the background. It's from an album celebrating American Indian culture, but I don't know the name of it.
Eastview605 2 years ago
it really gives you an idea of what goes on above the thunderstorms that you cant see from under it, tell me for blue jets and starters, maybe even sprites, is it possible to see them from the ground from a distance, like if you're looking towards the storm from miles away
CrystEarthPaw 3 years ago
Yes, it is possible, using the viewing geometry you mentioned. Sprites are the easiest. You need to be 100-200 mi from the storm, with a clear sky above it from your location. You're pretty brief, more so than they appear in TV video. To my knowledge the only time blue jets have been observed by naked eye is when these videos were shot. They have been filmed from the ground, but not see by naked eye.
Eastview605 3 years ago