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Aurora over Idaho

The aurora turns the sky near Malad City, Idaho, red, purple, and green in this 8-second exposure taken on May 11, 2024.

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ESA: How space science is combating climate change

ESA web article on ASIM's link to climate change research

NASA releases video about LIS and ASIM on ISS

NASA has made a short video about how LIS and ASIM on the ISS work together to study lightning above and below the clouds

Jets bleus et elfes : des chercheurs découvrent l’origine de mystérieux phénomènes lumineux

Les années lumière avec Sophie-Andrée Blondin: Radio segment from Radio Canada about ASIM, ELVEs and other TLEs. Part of their series 'Light Years' with Sophie-Andrée Blondin. In French.

Derfor rydder dansk forskning i voldsomme kæmpe-lyn internationale forsider

'Why Danish research sweeps the front pages': A quick video in Danmarks Radio's 'Explainer' series. This video explains why ASIM's findings about TGFs and Blue Jets are so important and ground-breaking.

Nasa: Blue jet space lightning spotted by scientists from the ISS

BBC Newsround story about the blue jets seen by ASIM

Elves seen from space

Animation of an artist's impression of lightning in clouds seen from space followed by a blue flash that lasts 10 micro seconds, a blue jet lasting 400 milliseconds and an elve generated by the blue flash that lasts for 30 microseconds. The International Space Station solar panels are shown in the foreground.

Genesis of blue lightning into the stratosphere detected from the International Space Station

Dark clouds, the smell of rain on a hot sidewalk, the flashes of intense light followed by a loud crackling and then a low, rolling thunder – who doesn’t love a good summer thunderstorm? We’ve all seen one, heard one, or been completely soaked by one. But how much do we really know about this weather phenomenon? As a new Nature paper reports, however, the European Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) observatory on the International Space Station is helping scientists find answers.

Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning

Science News article by Maria Temming: A ‘blue bang’ sparks an unusual type of lightning in the upper atmosphere. Scientists have finally gotten a clear view of the spark that sets off an exotic type of lightning called a blue jet.

NATURE MAGAZINE: SIGNIFICANT SCIENCE RESULTS FROM THE ASIM MISSION

Press release from Terma: Thunderstorms monitored by the Danish-led ASIM mission delivers historical data for groundbreaking science discovery now revealed in the prestigious Nature magazine.