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Lightning on Earth Is Sparked by a Powerful Chain Reaction From Outer Space, Simulations Show

PENN STATE, JUL 30 – Researchers from Penn State detailed the atmospheric chain reaction causing lightning and explained phenomena like dark lightning and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, clarifying long-standing mysteries.

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A new model may have finally solved where storm clouds get their missing energy.

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Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space, simulations show

A new model may have finally solved where storm clouds get their missing energy.

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What happens right before lightning strikes? Scientists have solved the mystery

Lightning, which can heat the atmosphere to five times the temperature of the surface of the sun, is the result of a powerful chain reaction

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Environmental News Network - A Bolt Is Born! Atmospheric Events Underpinning Lightning Strikes Explained

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds remained a perplexing mystery.

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