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Mike Wehner
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- Researchers have long studied how lightning works in the hopes of better understanding why it acts the way it does and why it hits some things but not others.
- A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters is accompanied by a high-speed camera video that reveals something incredibly interesting about lightning strikes.
- When a lightning strike occurs, the eventual target of the strike has not yet been determined, according to the new findings.
Lightning strikes are either an incredible sight or a frightening display of Mother Nature's power, depending on how close you are to where they hit. Determining why lightning strikes in certain places and how it "picks" its targets has been something that scientists have struggled to explain, but a new research effort has resulted in a fresh perspective on lighting behavior.
The work, which was published in Geophysical Research Letters, is accompanied by a brief video that finally answers a burning question. The clip, which is just 10 seconds long but was captured with an ultra-high-speed camera, reveals how a lightning strike evolves in just fractions of a second.
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We finally unlocked one of the most puzzling secrets about lightning originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 19:51:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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