... lightning by examining measurements of more than two million individual lightning ... Lightning is of interest to Los Alamos' national security missions because there is ...
... An interesting preliminary finding from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), another instrument on the TRMM satellite, is that its data indicate little lightning over the oceans and 90 percent of lightning occurring over land. ...
... an orbiting spacecraft, then further delayed by clouds and lightning in the area ... are also associated with clusters of lightning seen by the Galileo spacecraft ... The process that generates the lightning on Jupiter is not well-understood, though. ...
... Science instruments on the spacecraft searched for lightning in Venus's atmosphere during the flyby, and the radar instrument onboard was activated to test a bounced signal off Venus's surface. ...
... conducted a several-hour search for signals which could indicate the occurrence of lightning in the Venusian atmosphere ... Instruments aboard the spacecraft looked for lightning in the atmosphere and performed a radar test by bouncing a radio signal ...
... JCSat-6's telemetry encoders both failed during testing, possibly as a result of a lightning strike some distance away (although the Astrotech processing facility at the Cape, where it happened, is theoretically well shielded). ...
... The first is a search for Venus lightning by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument; the second is a check of the RADAR bounce capability. ...
... The launch has been delayed by nearly an hour due to several minor problems, including a technical problem with an upper stage of the booster, a ship in a restricted area offshore, and concerns about lightning. ...