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Allen Boyle's Cosmiclog at www. msnbc.msn,com (click on science and technology, then space and Cosmic Log should come up) has a great time lapse photo of lightning striking an airliner (using the airliner as part of path to ground). You will have to go into the June ARCHIVES to find the amazing shots (unless have WEBTV where you will simply have to keep going to NEXT until spot MYSTERY OVER THE ATLANTIC) to see MYSTERY OVER THE ATLANTIC (attention was drawn to photo by recent speculation about Air France liner loss over the Atlantic). The time lapse photo has one frame in which the plane seems wiped out (it can't be seen due to the brilliance involved). Lightning strokes are not a single shot; but, usually, several rapid shots down the same chain (zap, zap, zap, zap, etc.). The electrical load in the one "zap" that made the plane momentarily disappear was obviously the greatest "zap".
There are other interesting ASTRONOMY articles along the way to MYSTERY OVER THE ATLANTIC (which is almost back to May) that are very special and worth your time to peruse and enjoy. The long shadow of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Saturn's rings taken by Cassini is a spectical that you might have to spend some time waiting to see if on a spaceship tour of Saturn. Some NEW (only about a million years old) suns near our black hole are another very interesting thing in the June archives on the way down to MYSTERY OVER THE ATLANTIC.
ENJOY,
Carlton
There are other interesting ASTRONOMY articles along the way to MYSTERY OVER THE ATLANTIC (which is almost back to May) that are very special and worth your time to peruse and enjoy. The long shadow of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Saturn's rings taken by Cassini is a spectical that you might have to spend some time waiting to see if on a spaceship tour of Saturn. Some NEW (only about a million years old) suns near our black hole are another very interesting thing in the June archives on the way down to MYSTERY OVER THE ATLANTIC.
ENJOY,
Carlton
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