Oklahoma Storm Generates, 'Gigantic Jet' , Lightning Bolt .<br />Scientists have captured data from <br />a lightning bolt rising 50 miles into space which <br />offers clues into the mystery of 'gigantic jets.' .<br />Scientists have captured data from <br />a lightning bolt rising 50 miles into space which <br />offers clues into the mystery of 'gigantic jets.' .<br />Yahoo reports that the new research has <br />the potential to explain why they shoot up into <br />space as opposed to down towards the ground.<br />According to scientists, as many as, 50,000 'gigantic jets' , occur every year. .<br />Yahoo reports that the enormous lightning bolt <br />shot out of a thunderstorm in Oklahoma and <br />was the most powerful 'gigantic jet' every studied.<br />Average lightning bolts carry, less than five coulombs, of electrical charge.<br />The Oklahoma 'gigantic jet' , generated an estimated , 300 coulombs.<br />We were able to map <br />this gigantic jet in three <br />dimensions with really <br />high-quality data, Levi Boggs, Corresponding author <br />and a research scientist at the Georgia Tech <br />Research Institute (GTRI), via Yahoo.<br />Scientists have observed and studied <br />gigantic jets over the past two decades, <br />but recorded detections have been rare.<br />Researchers theorize that some unknown cause<br />could be blocking the flow of electrical charge <br />downward or in the direction of other clouds.<br />Records of the Oklahoma event show little lightning activity prior to the massive bolt of lightning shooting into the ionosphere
