You can actually see the small blue leader develop above the cloud before it fully discharges as a gigantic jet with vibrant purple and red colors.
After the jet disappears, the leader flickers a few times and surprisingly produces a second jet shortly afterwards. That's something I have not seen before!
Here is another incredible photo from the ISS showing a gigantic jet over Mexico.
https://fosstodon.org/@stim3on/114879673339439777
This video was recently published by #ESA, but it was extremely dark, so it was hard to see details.
Thanks to the ESA media team who provided me with a higher quality version, I was able to recover lots of shadow details and correct the hotpixel noise.
Original: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/12/Nature_s_fireworks_from_space
