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old sayings aside lightning sometimes

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does strike twice but perhaps not always

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in the same place can one lightning bolt

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somehow trigger a second so called

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sympathetic strike many miles away

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what's closely this is lightning as seen

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from the Space Shuttle seem to be

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sympathetic flashes want to go off and a

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couple next to it Roger that these

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flashes are very interesting because

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they show a possible relationship

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between very large flashes separated by

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large distances hopefully the shuttle

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data will help us to understand this

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phenomenon and that's just one of the

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objectives of lightning research being

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conducted by scientists here at NASA's

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Marshall Space Flight Center in

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Huntsville Alabama and some new answers

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will likely come from an ongoing series

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of space shuttle based lightning

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experiments the shuttles television

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cameras will be used to simulate what

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future lightning sensors will see a

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global weather computer called Makeda's

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will alert the crew to what storms lie

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ahead so that additional pictures can be

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taken ultimately NASA hopes to use this

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information to design lightning sensing

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instruments to be placed on future

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satellites and on the space station

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freedom if we put lightning sensors into

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geostationary orbit into low-earth orbit

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will be able to get a global mapping of

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lightning activity improving our

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understanding of the basic physics of

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storms and developing new ways to

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observe them will lead to better

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forecasting abilities making us all

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safer from this deadly force of nature

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perhaps we're just beginning to

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understand what this research may lead

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to as an example we've uncovered some

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relationships between lightning activity

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the flash rate of lighting and the

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precipitation rain volume of the cloud

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if we can establish this relationship

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and quantifying further we would be able

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to then use whitening from lightning

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observations from space to turn on with

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the rainfall rate from a particular

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storm system is using the vantage point

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of space to better understand the many

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environmental systems in our world and

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how they interact is the goal of NASA's

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initiative for the 1990s known as

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mission to Planet Earth for now ongoing

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lightning studies

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provide researchers with an important

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head start in Huntsville this is Mike

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I guess I want to say it's really a

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farrell circular circulatory patterns

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that are not quite organized into one

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year failure decide to join up it i'll

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be a good doctor that support a

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panhandle and alabama some places are

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getting a little bit worried about it i