A sequence of animations from lightning measurements have been put together as part of the project which it is hoped will give experts"additional confidence" when tracking future storms.The system can detect a single bolt 'faster than the blink of an eye'.
The European weather agency, Eumetsat, and the European Space Agency released the first animations using data captured by the Leonardo Lightning Imager, which was launched on the Meteosat Third Generation satellite system above Africa last December. Described by the ESA as the"first European lightning hunter", the system has cameras covering Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of South America and can detect a single bolt"faster than the blink of an eye"., which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enablecookies or to allow those cookies just once.