Thursday, 2 July 2015

NASA Takes to Kansas Skies to Study Nighttime Thunderstorms

NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory

In most of the U.S., summer thunderstorms form on hot days. In the Great Plains, they often form at night. NASA is joining a multi-agency field campaign to learn why.





from News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://ift.tt/1T7vUFp
via IFTTT

No comments:

Post a Comment

NASA’s IXPE Measures White Dwarf Star for First Time

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk. Earlier th...