Gigantic jets are a subset of “blue jets.”

Source One year ago, an incredible “gigantic jet” – an extremely-rare type of upper-atmospheric lightning – was photographed from the International Space Station. This was from the same storm system that would eventually cause the devastating Camp Mystic flooding in Texas. This is the clearest photo we have EVER seen of a gigantic jet from above. Nichole Rhea Ayers is a major in the U.S. Air Force and a NASA astronaut. She launched to the International Space Station as a pilot of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission on March 14, 2025. The crew returned to Earth via a splashdown offshore of San Diego on August 9, 2025. On Thursday morning, July 3, 2025, she captured an unbelievable photo of an ultra-rare GIANT JET. The International Space Station was over Mexico and the southern U.S. at the time. It looks like the instigating thunderstorm was happening somewhere near Sabinas in Coahuila, Mexico around 1:30 a.m. Central time. Gigantic jets are a subset of “blue jets,” which themselves are a type…