Where ‘green ghost’ lightning gets its emerald hue

A range of elements in planetary dust provide the colour for high-altitude natural fireworks.

A strange type of atmospheric lightning known as a mesospheric ghost probably owes some of its properties to space dust¹.

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Nature 624, 477 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03810-z

Passas-Varo, M. et al. Nature Commun. 14, 7810 (2023).
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