Tropical Storms Produce Radiation More Often Than Expected
Discover Magazine - Thu 3 Oct 24A spy plane designed to measure gamma ray bursts detected them frequently and discovered some new forms.
A Retired Cold War Spy Plane Discovered Something Really Weird About Thunderstorms
Inverse - Wed 2 Oct 24NASANASA sent a retired Cold War spy plane on a storm-chasing mission, and it discovered that big thunderstorms are very radioactive.Large thunderstorms produce so much gamma radiation that ...
Mysterious form of high-energy radiation spotted in thunderstorms
Nature News - Wed 2 Oct 24Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03206-7Daring flights in an old spy plane observe powerful gamma-ray flashes that could help explain the cause ...
Highly dynamic gamma-ray emissions are common in tropical thunderclouds
Nature News - Wed 2 Oct 24Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07936-6Tropical thunderclouds over ocean and coastal regions are shown to emit gamma rays for several hours ...
Flickering gamma-ray flashes, the missing link between gamma glows and TGFs
Nature News - Wed 2 Oct 24Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07893-0Flickering gamma-ray flashes associated with terrestrial thunderstorms have been observed, which may ...
Radioactive rain? NASA’s ex-spy plane reveals thunderstorms emit gamma rays
Interesting Engineering - Wed 2 Oct 24 Most tropical thunderstorms are radioactive, Earth.com - Wed 2 Oct 24Nature's Nuclear Reactors: Thunderstorms Routinely Produce Gamma Rays, Newsweek - Wed 2 Oct 24
Retrofitted Cold War Spy Plane Shows That Most Tropical Storms Are Radioactive, IFLScience - Wed 2 Oct 24
Tropical Lightning Storms Found to Be Radioactive, Mirage News - Wed 2 Oct 24
Key Link Found in Thundercloud Gamma Emissions, Mirage News - Wed 2 Oct 24
Thunderstorms churn up a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays
ScienceNews - Wed 2 Oct 24A thunderstorm seen in gamma-ray vision is a complex, frenetic lightshow when viewed from above the clouds.
Surprising amount and variety of gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms, observations reveal
Phys.org - Wed 2 Oct 24In the 1990s, NASA satellites built to spot high-energy particles coming from supernovas and other celestial-sized objects discovered a surprise—high energy gamma radiation bursts coming from ...
Scientists Use Cold War-Era Spy Plane to Find Unexpected Gamma Rays in Thunderstorms
Smithsonian Magazine - Fri 4 Oct 24The new findings bring storm researchers one step closer to solving the mystery of how lightning forms
U2 spy plane finds thunderstorms generate gamma rays all the time
ZME Science - Wed 2 Oct 24Astonishingly, 9 out of 10 of the studied thunderstorms produced gamma rays.
NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms
Popular Science - Wed 2 Oct 24Thunderstorms create a lot of wind, rain, and lightning, but many people aren’t necessarily aware of another common byproduct: gamma radiation. Thanks to a creative retrofit of an old U-2 ...
Big thunderstorms create a surprising amount of radiation
Futurity - Fri 4 Oct 24New observations from a retrofitted U2 spy plane reveal a surprising amount and variety of gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms. In the 1990s, NASA satellites built to ...
Surprising Discovery: NASA’s Retrofitted U2 Spy Plane Reveals Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive, SciTechDaily - Sun 6 Oct 24Most tropical lightning storms are radioactive
ScienceDaily - Thu 3 Oct 24Researchers have known for several decades that thunderstorms can act as miniature particle accelerators that produce antimatter, gamma rays and other nuclear phenomena. But they did not know ...
Most tropical lightning storms are radioactive, Eurekalert - Wed 2 Oct 24Gamma-Ray Emission from Tropical Thunderstorms Takes More Forms Than Previously Thought
Sci.News - Thu 3 Oct 24There’s more to thunderclouds than rain and lightning. Along with visible light emissions, thunderclouds can produce intense bursts of gamma rays that last for millionths of a second. The ...
NRL’s paradigm-changing instrument takes the world by iSTORM
Eurekalert - Wed 2 Oct 24U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) instrument, the in-Situ Thunderstorm Observer for Radiation Mechanisms (iSTORM), provides paradigm-changing observations of ionizing radiation from tropical ...
Missing link found in gamma emission phenomena from thunderclouds
Eurekalert - Wed 2 Oct 24In the latest edition of Nature, groundbreaking results about the gamma-ray emissions produced during thunderstorms are presented. These findings show that gamma-ray emission from thunderclouds ...
Magnetized magma intrusions being sources of two lunar magnetic anomalies revealed by 3D inversion
Eurekalert - Mon 30 Sep 24In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Physics, a team from China University of Geosciences Beijing has used an inversion software to reconstruct the 3D distributions of magnetization in ...