Why does NASA study lightning from space? • Lightning is a natural hazard - threatening lives, damaging infrastructure, causing wildfires, and posing a risk to NASA rocket launches. • Lightning is related to processes within deep convection, and by studying lightning we learn more about how storms impact Earth’s weather and climate. • Lightning produces nitrogen oxides, which modulate ozone levels in the atmosphere. These gases are important for biogeochemical cycles and Earth’s climate. • Lightning affects regions beyond Earth’s troposphere and occurs on other planets.
History of NASA Global Lightning Observations
History of NASA and the Environment Symposium ; 2022 ; Washington, DC, US
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Lightning: NASA vs. Mother Nature
NTRS | 2009
|NTIS | 1983
|NTRS | 1983
|NASA F-106B Lightning Ground Tests
NTIS | 1983
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