NASA's Fermi Mission Brings Deeper Focus to Thunderstorm Gamma-rays (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's Fermi Mission Brings Deeper Focus to Thunderstorm Gamma-rays

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Merging data on high-energy bursts seen on Earth by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with data from ground-based radar and lightning detectors, scientists have completed the most detailed analysis to date of the types of thunderstorms producing terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs.

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