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Scientists Use High-energy Particles from Space to Probe Thunderstorms

 

Scientists Use High-energy Particles from Space to Probe Thunderstorms

June 1st, 2009

 

(PhysOrg.com) -- Florida Institute of Technology researchers are trying to solve one of the great mysteries in nature: how thunderstorms make lightning. Because, in principle, lightning is a big spark it should behave like other sparks—like the ones created when we touch a door knob on a dry day. Scientists have accumulated evidence, however, that lightning sometimes behaves in very un-spark-like ways.

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