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WWLLN World Wide Lightning Location Network (wwlln.net) SYSTEM MESSAGE: You may notice that our Global Map looks a little different today - that's because we have reversed the order for plotting the symbols! We were plotting the oldest (red) points last, which, of course, covered up the most ...
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Happy Halloween! I hope you all are having
a fun day of candy-and-costume-filled spookiness. And speaking of
playing different roles, Earth scientists wear one hat in particular that's very important: the Outreach Hat! That's why the subject of ...
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Accretionary Wedge #21: Earth Science Outreach
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Signature of antimatter detected in lightning
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... has now recorded some more down-to-Earth signals. During its first 14 months of operation, the flying observatory has detected 17 gamma-ray flashes associated with terrestrial lightning storms. The flashes occurred just before, during and immediately after lightning strikes, as tracked by the World Wide Lightning Location Network . During two recent lightning storms, Fermi recorded gamma-ray emissions of a particular energy that could only have been produced by the decay of energetic positrons, the antimatter equivalent of electrons. The observations are the first of their ...
Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning
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... The flashes occurred just before, during and immediately after lightning strikes, as tracked by the World Wide Lightning Location Network. ...
Antimatter signature spotted in Earth’s lightning
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... The17 flashes Fermi detected occurred just before, during and immediately after lightning strikes, as tracked by the World Wide Lightning Location Network. ...
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