This Is What Thunder Looks Like

Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas launched a rocket with a trailing copper wire into a storm, and were able to make lightning happen right where they thought it would. With this predictability, they could train arrays of microphones at the spot and capture the sound waves of thunder visually, in unprecedented detail. Science has come a long way since 1752, but when it comes to inducing lightning not that much has changed since Ben Franklin.

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