Home School Tips: Weather: NASA Lightning Detection from Space

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Home School Tips: Weather: NASA Lightning Detection from Space
Searching for ways to make your home school science environment more fun? The Internet has a wide variety of resources on just about any topic that you can use to supplement your teaching. For instance, if you were studying weather with your child it would be cool to show them images and videos relating to weather research on the computer.

NASA has investigated the phenomena of lightning from aircraft and the Space Shuttle. This “Lightning Primer” explores the characteristics, the history, and the on-going research about nature’s most capricious and deadly member. While you are here, make sure you check out the picture of lightning taken from Columbian crew cabin!

This web site is available at: http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/lisotd_old.html

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