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Must See Time-Lapse Video of Lightning Strikes From Space! (2 Videos)

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A new time-lapse video from space shows flashes of lightning above North and South America. The weather satellite launched to space on March 1st. Lindsey Granger has more

Must See Time-Lapse Video of Lightning Strikes From Space! (2 Videos) from South Florida Reporter on Vimeo.

Monday, NOAA released the first video from it’s newest satellite’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument, showing a string of storms as it made its way across the United States. The instrument watches for lightning strikes across the Western hemisphere, helping meteorologists make more accurate storm predictions, and helping researchers better understand lightning behavior.

The GLM, currently installed in GOES-17 and its predecessor, GOES-16, was designed and built by Lockheed Martin, which has new footage today, available here first.

This time-lapse shows an hour of activity in a string of storms moving across the country on May 2, with lightning lighting up first the darkened outline of North America (state and national borders are highlighted in blue) and then cloud tops.

Samantha Edgington, chief scientist on the GLM at Lockheed Martin, has worked on the project since it was first proposed to NASA. “It’s been a really amazing experience to go from the proposal, where everything is just powerpoint charts, to actually making hardware, to launching it and seeing that it works on orbit,” she says.   Continue reading

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