Lightning to Provide Clues to Solar System Origins

 

NASA researchers have found a new technique –the electromagnetic signature, known as Schumann Resonance that can be detected using NASA‘s Vector Electric Field Instrument (VEFI) aboard the U.S. Air Force‘s Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite. Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to create a beating pulse between the ground and the lower ionosphere, about 60 miles up in the More >