Just before lightning strikes
Negative ions from a cloud reach down, in response to the electric field, positive charges rise up from buildings, trees. when they meet a path is formed for a bolt.
Watch the upward discharge here from a lightning rod
@US_Stormwatch@US_Stormwatch how do you attain these current satellite images? I've tried to get current images through USGS but I'm still trying to wrap my head around how to work through their public systems.
Researchers at Australian National University developed a clever way to sense seismic waves reverberating inside the Earth. Those echoes made it possible for them to sense the growing metallic seed at the center of our planet. https://t.co/4SswSKFb6b #Perspective
A new seismic study shows that Earth has five inner layers, not four as long believed. Inside Earth's inner core is an *inner-inner* core, a ball of white hot iron 1300 km (800 miles) wide. https://t.co/OtO2quWEMi #Geology#earthquakes
12-year time lapse of 4 distant planets, each larger than Jupiter, orbiting their star.
Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang has documented HR8799, the first extrasolar planetary system ever directly imaged.
👉https://t.co/1vj1QS2XSr
Since the late 1970s, ExxonMobil’s own scientists accurately projected and modeled global warming due to fossil fuel burning and produced results that were consistent with independent academic and government climate models, a new #ScienceReview finds. https://t.co/eJLLBNNZ3W