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Can lightning go into space

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12y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Sort of. Several times spacecraft passed over thunderstorms and observed multicolored "columns" appearing above the clouds at the same time there was a lightning strike below the cloud. However these "columns" don't extend above the atmosphere.

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