One of the things that lightning does is to remove electrons from the radiation belts.

At higher altitudes, there isn't enough air for ionized molecules to combine and become neutral again, so the region stays ionized. That's what the ionosphere is.

The amazing part for the new [daytime] event is even during daytime, even in this solar-illuminated ionosphere, the effect of the flare was huge. It was much, much more intense than the sun in terms of producing ionization.

They wanted to fire one X-ray photon at a hydrogen molecule, knock both electrons back, and the two nuclei would explode apart. Then, they wanted to catch all four particles and figure out the orientation of the molecule in space: how far apart were the nuclei, where did the electrons go for that orientation and what were their distances.

No one can remove our tents!

It's a way to wring the most out of the nuts and bolts and electrons.