Physicists identify anti-electron clouds inside thunderstorms
DURHAM, N.H., May 13 (UPI) — What exactly coaxes the first lightning bolt from storm clouds? What initiates the charged strike and bellowing thunder? A new study suggests pockets of anti-electron clouds could have something to do with it.
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire recently gathered some surprising, yet puzzling, insights into the world of lightning formation when a research plane they were on found its way into the top of an active thunderstorm.
While riding aboard a Gulfstream V, operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a team scientists found themselves unexpectedly in the midst of a violent storm. While passing through the storm clouds, the researchers’ instruments picked up a strange phenomenon — a cluster of positron clouds.
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