Planetary defense has new tool in weather satellite lightning detector
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's efforts to better understand asteroid impacts has found unexpected support from a new satellite sensor designed to detect lightning. New research published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science finds that the new Geostationary Lightning Mapper, or GLM, on two weather satellites is able to pick up signals of meteors in Earth's atmosphere.