On a cold, thin-aired world where sound barely carries, a NASA rover has picked up something that should not be possible: the ...
The Electric Factory Above Our Heads Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When ...
The National Weather Service provides a way to roughly calculate distance from a lightning strike. A bolt of lightning heats the air to about 50,000 degrees when it strikes. There’s no safe place ...