News tagged with lightning stroke
Firestation in space to open firehose of lightning data
(PhysOrg.com) -- When opportunity knocked, NASA heliophysicist Doug Rowland answered. He and his team recently secured another flight opportunity for a pint-sized instrument studying lightning in Earth's upper ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Scientists Pierce Veil of Clouds to 'See' Lightning Inside a Volcanic Plume
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers hit the jackpot in late March, when, for the first time, they began recording data on lightning in a volcanic eruption--right from the start of the eruption.
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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Lightning sprites are out-of-this-world
Only a few decades ago, scientists discovered the existence of "sprites" 30 to 55 miles above the surface of the Earth. They're offshoots of electric discharges caused by lightning storms, and a valuable window ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2011 |
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How extreme heat affects the body
The moment you step into oppressive heat, the body senses life-threatening danger and starts fighting to keep things cool.
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Researchers use lightning detection for early warning of volcanic ash
(PhysOrg.com) -- New Zealand scientists are playing a key role in developing a new system to give early warning of aviation-endangering volcanic eruptions by detecting the lightning their ash clouds trigger.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2010 |
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X-rays from lightning photographed
Using a custom-built camera the size of a refrigerator, Florida researchers have made the world's first crude pictures of X-rays streaming from a stroke of lightning.
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Earth, Venus lightnings produced by similar mechanisms
Despite the great differences between the atmospheres of Venus and Earth, scientists have discovered that very similar mechanisms produce lightning on the two planets. The rates of discharge, the intensity ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Firefly Satellite to study lightning
Satellites are big. They cost a lot of money. At least that's the impression a couple of University of Maryland-College Park students had when they applied for an internship to help construct a satellite instrument ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Ball lightning may sometimes be explained as hallucinations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists in Austria have calculated the magnetic fields associated with certain types of lightning strikes are powerful enough to create hallucinations of hovering balls of light in nearby ...
May 13, 2010 |
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50 years on, the pill still changes lives
On Sunday, men and women around the world will mark an event 50 years ago that revolutionized their lives -- the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the birth control pill.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 05, 2010 |
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Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn's atmosphere. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Crashing the size barrier
Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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