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Lightning Over Athens
Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos
Explanation: Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, nobody knows exactly how lightning is produced. What is known is that charges slowly separate in some clouds causing rapid electrical discharges (lightning), but how electrical charges get separated in clouds remains a topic of much research. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder. Lightning bolts are common in clouds during rainstorms, and on average 6,000 lightning bolts occur between clouds and the Earth every minute. Pictured above, an active lightning storm was recorded over Athens, Greece earlier this month.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100720.html (In the Explanation on the link to the left has the hyperlinks in the explanation (14 of them))
darn this is lots of lighting ! I am surprised my sisters did not mentioned t!thanks Chuck! ;love;
I look at the site http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (I have it set to speeddial 1 in Opera & set it to reload every day) This photo is from APOD you can go thru the calendar of pics hereThe times I have been to Arizona I have not seen that kind of light show
Wow , i have never seen a picture of lightening like this , and I’m in Arizona. Thanks for sharing
Lightning strikes truck:http://www.850koa.com/cc-common/news/videos/player.html?mid=VIRAL/LiveLeak-dot-com-bda7b33c4c06-watch_lightning_strikes_truck_.wmv&redir=yes
Originally posted by Chas4:I look at the site http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (I have it set to speeddial 1 in Opera & set it to reload every day) This photo is from APOD you can go thru the calendar of pics herethanks for sharing the link Chuck! you always have amazing links! :yes:I only have videos of caterpillars đ :p
Originally posted by ellinidata:I only have videos of caterpillars Not if that :bug: s anyone
Is it shocking Tamil?
:yikes:
very nice pic.bookmarked the link :up:
Nice PIC, very impressive light scene (& good camera).
They always have great photos on http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
Originally posted by Chas4:They always have great photos on http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.govI haven’t found very many photos but the background and otherstuff is Awesome!:up:
Originally posted by billsofat:I haven’t found very many photoshttp://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
nice pictures in there. :up: