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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. This photo was made with a five-minute time exposure. Tucson, Arizona, USA. 1992..
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds.
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds.
    USA_SCI_LIG_33_xs.jpg
  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds.
    USA_SCI_LIG_31_xs.jpg
  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. This photo was made with a five-minute time exposure. Tucson, Arizona, USA. 1992..
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. Tucson, Arizona, USA. 1992..
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. ..Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. ..Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. ..Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_36_xs.jpg
  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. ..Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds. ..Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Tucson, Arizona, USA. (1992)
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into storm. Balloon is 1500 cubic feet surplus nylon with fins that is tethered and carries an electronic field meter. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992)
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into an approaching electrical lightning storm. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992) Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius.
    USA_SCI_LIG_14_xs.jpg
  • Lights illuminate the Amazon Theater in Manaus, Brazil at dusk as a lightning storm flashes over the Solimoes River. The opera house was built in eclectic neo-classic style during the rubber boom period in the 1890's.
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  • Breakers Water Park in Tucson, Arizona. A lightning detector is used to monitor the proximity of lightning, giving the lifeguards time to warn the swimmers when to get out of the water. 1993.
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  • A "no-honking" sign in downtown Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Repairing small wooden boats on the beach of the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosion on July 16. 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Tucson, Arizona. San Javier Del Bac Mission. Approaching afternoon thunderstorm in graveyard of mission.
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  • Arizona project water aqueduct, near Phoenix, Arizona desert. USA
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  • Arizona. Lightning. Time exposure image of lightning strikes over Tucson, Arizona, USA..The silhouette of a giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) is in the foreground at right and left. Car tail light trails are also seen in the foreground. Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Photographed in Tucson, Arizona, USA. .
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  • The Kremlin in Suzdal, Russia.
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  • Garbanzo beans for sale in paper cones by the port in Alexandria, Egypt. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Garbanzo beans for sale in paper cones by the port in Alexandria, Egypt. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • The beach at the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • The beach at the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
    EGY_030529_156_x.jpg
  • Repairing small wooden boats on the beach of the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
    EGY_030529_137_x.jpg
  • Repairing small wooden boats on the beach of the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
    EGY_030529_136_x.jpg
  • The port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm.
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  • The port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
    EGY_030529_123_x.jpg
  • Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Weather: Sunset light breaks through the clouds illuminating the mountains near Lone Pine along Route 395 in the Eastern Sierras of California.  (1990)
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  • Weather: A thunderhead cloud approaches the Breakers Water Park in Tucson, Arizona. A lightning detector is used to monitor the proximity of lightning, giving the lifeguards time to warn the swimmers when to get out of the water. (1993)
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  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice was photographed by the schoolyard fence near where he was struck by lightning. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
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  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
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  • Lightning tolerance test. A researcher holding two carbon-fiber panels from a helicopter, showing their tolerance of lightning. The panel at right is simple carbon fiber, and has had a large hole punched in it by simulated lightning. This is because it is an electrical insulator, so cannot disperse the electricity across its surface. The panel at left has a thin grid of copper wire coating the surface. This allows the electrical charge to disperse over the surface, causing nothing more than damage to the paint. Photographed at Lightning Technologies Inc. of Massachusetts, USA. 1992.MODEL RELEASED
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  • Lightning detection and aviation. View of the Federal Express (FedEx) air traffic control tower at Memphis Airport, USA. Overlaid on this is a frame from the National Lightning Detection Network computer, showing the distribution of lightning strikes (green dots) across the USA. FedEx controllers use this information in planning the most efficient routes possible for their aircraft. FedEx specialize in transporting express parcels and documents, and have their main operating hub at Memphis. 1992.
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  • San Javier del Bac Mission. Afternoon thunderstorm with lightning stikes behind the historic Spanish mission and graveyard. 1992.
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  • Lightning on Church Street, Truckee, California (near Squaw Valley). 1998.
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  • Cape Canaveral, Florida. Natural lightning and experimental lightning rods from Australia being tested at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1991.
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  • Lightning bolt across the sky from an approaching afternoon thunderstorm, seen from camp at Dinosaur Cove, Cape Otway, Southern Australia.  Dinosaur Cove is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleontology - normally the scientists rely on commercial mining to make the excavations. The site is of particular interest as the fossils found date from about 100 million years ago, when Australia was much closer to the South Pole than today.  [1989]
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  • Lightning at Galle Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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  • Brisbane, a tropical city, has heavy thunderstorms almost every afternoon in the summer. Shown here is a view of the surrounding area. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 25).  This image is featured alongside the Brown family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm.
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  • A 'no-honking' sign in downtown Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Weather: A Saguaro Cactus and an afternoon summer lightning storm in the Tucson, Arizona desert. (1993)
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Page, Arizona. Lower Antelope Canyon, slot canyon
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets in front of the Imam Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, during a December snow storm. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The walled city of Avila, Spain under storm clouds.
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into storm. Balloon is 1500 cubic feet surplus nylon with fins that is tethered and carries an electronic field meter. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_20_xs.jpg
  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into storm. Balloon is 1500 cubic feet surplus nylon with fins that is tethered and carries an electronic field meter. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992) Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius.
    USA_SCI_LIG_17_xs.jpg
  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Steven Storm in the Tissue Laboratory of Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona. Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization.  1989
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  • A desert dust storm whips the tents and flags of a pilgrim camp at Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Taos Pueblo cemetery with approaching storm clouds, New Mexico, USA.
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  • The walled city of Avila, Spain under storm clouds.
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  • The walled city of Avila, Spain under storm clouds.
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  • Weather: Spring ice storm coats a fence and weeds in rural Tennessee. March 1974.
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into an approaching electrical lightning storm.. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992) Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius..
    USA_SCI_LIG_13_xs.jpg
  • Biosphere 2 Project member Stephen Storm in the tissue culture lab.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. 1986
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  • A yak grazes during a hail storm near the  Sichen Holy Lake near Ruthok, Tibet. 4,900 meters altitude, in Maldro Gunkar County. Yaks are found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia.
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  • A man with a goat on a leash walks past a mosque in Narok, Kenya on an afternoon with threatening storm clouds looming.
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into storm. Balloon is 1500 cubic feet surplus nylon with fins that is tethered and carries an electronic field meter. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_18_xs.jpg
  • T-28 armor-plated aircraft used to fly through storm clouds to measure particle sizes and cloud electrification. Cape Canaveral (Kennedy Space Center), Florida. (1991).Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius.
    USA_SCI_LIG_15_xs.jpg
  • The Sony humanoid robot prototype SDR-3X is held by professional Sumo wrestler Tamarashi ("Bullet-storm"). Sony Corporation announced the development of this small bipedal walking robot in November of 2000. By synchronizing the movements of 24 joints on its body, Sony says, the robot can perform basic movements such as walking and changing direction, rising from a seated position, balancing on one leg, kicking a ball, and dancing. Tokyo, Japan.
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