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Gamma-ray Emissions in Tropical Thunderstorms. The study also uncovered new details about how tropical thunderstorms differ from those at higher latitudes in terms of their gamma-ray emissions.
They also understood that thunderstorms produce a lower-level, faint glow of gamma rays. The mechanism driving these bursts has long been attributed to the relativistic runaway electron avalanche ...
Thunderstorms are far more radioactive than previously thought, routinely producing a vast array of gamma rays, new research has found. An artist's impression shows a NASA plane flying over gamma ...
Observations from a retrofitted spy plane hint at a connection between powerful gamma-ray flashes and a thunderstorm’s lightning. Skip to main content. Scientific American. October 20, 2024.
Thunderstorms produce gamma rays when electrons get accelerated in strong electric fields that build up inside the clouds (SN: 3/15/19). These electrons produce more electrons, and so on.
Gamma-ray glows and terrestrial flashes were previously known to come from thunderstorms, but the newly described FGFs are a sort of goldilocks radiation, lasting longer than the terrestrial ...
Storm Chasing in a Spy Plane. In the 1990s, gamma rays from a few large thunderstorms pinged the sensors on NASA satellites, which had been built to study gamma ray bursts coming from dead stars ...
Big thunderstorms continuously emit gamma rays that are undetectable from the ground, two studies said on Wednesday, upending what was previously thought -- and potentially pointing towards a clue in ...
PARIS: Big thunderstorms continuously emit gamma rays that are undetectable from the ground, two studies said on Wednesday, upending what was previously thought — and potentially pointing ...
Thunderstorms 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 spy ...