Terrestrial Gamma Flashes (TGFs) from Fermi with Static Earth

  • Released Monday, January 10th, 2011
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:53PM
  • ID: 3747
In this visualization, we plot the timing and locations of terrestrial gamma flashes (TGFs) observed by the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray observatory.

One version of the map includes the global lightning probability (the light blue glow overlaying the global map) which varies with season. We see that TGFs are roughly correlated with lightning probability.

This movie plays the terrestrial gamma flashes with a daily lighting map (blue glow) as background.

This movie plays the terrestrial gamma flashes without a lighting map or date tag.

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Missions

This visualization is related to the following missions:

Series

This visualization can be found in the following series:

Datasets used in this visualization

Terra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

See more visualizations using this data set
TRMM Lightning (Collected with the LIS sensor)
See more visualizations using this data set
Fermi Fermi GBM TGF (A.K.A. Terrestrial Gamma Flashes) (Collected with the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor sensor)
Data Compilation NASA/MSFC 2008-08-07 to 2010-12-31
See more visualizations using this data set

Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.