Connections: Terrestrial Gamma Flashes and Lightning?
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- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman
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The RHESSI instrument not only views the Sun but can detect gamma-rays from sources on Earth as well.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.) [Lead]
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Scientists
- Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh (University of British Columbia)
- David M. Smith (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Papers
This visualization is based on the following papers:- Science, Vol 307, Issue 5712, 1085-1088 , 18 February 2005, [DOI: 10.1126/science.1107466]
Missions
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RHESSI (Collected with the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer sensor)
The RHESSI instrument is an imaging spectrometer observing the Sun at X-ray to gamma-rays (photon energies of 3 keV to 17 MeV) at time resolutions of a few seconds. (eV stands for "electron volt" and is a unit of energy. Note that photons of visible light have energies of 2-3 eV. 1 keV is a thousand electron volts and 1 MeV is a million electron volts.
Dataset can be found at: http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessi/
See more visualizations using this data setTRMM Lightning (Collected with the LIS sensor)
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