NASA ER-2 hunting gamma-rays (illustration) (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA ER-2 hunting gamma-rays (illustration)

Caption

NASA’s high-flying ER-2 airplane carries instrumentation in this artist’s impression of the ALOFT mission to record gamma rays (colored purple for illustration) from thunderclouds.

Credit

NASA/ALOFT Team

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License

Public Domain

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