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Space shuttle video images: an example of warm cloud lightning

Content Provider	NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Author	Vaughan Jr., Otha H. Boeck, William L.
Copyright Year	1998
Description	Warm cloud lightning has been reported in several tropical locations. We have been using the intensified monochrome TV cameras at night during a number of shuttle flights to observe large active thunderstorms and their associated lightning. During a nighttime orbital pass of the STS-70 mission on 17 July 1995 at 07:57:42 GMT, the controllers obtained video imagery of a small cloud that was producing lightning. Data from a GOES infrared image establishes that the cloud top had a temperature of about 271 degrees Kelvin ( -2 degrees Celsius). Since this cloud was electrified to the extent that a lightning discharge did occur, it may be another case of lightning in a cloud that presents little if any evidence of frozen or melting precipitation.
File Size	310273
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19980201084
Archival Resource Key	ark:/13960/t14n4459m
Language	English
Publisher Date	1998-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Meteorology And Climatology Tropical Regions Position Location Warm Fronts Thunderstorms Television Cameras Lightning Space Shuttles Clouds Meteorology Space Transportation System Infrared Imagery Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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