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Tiny Firefly Satellite Set To Flash Straight Into Lightning and Thunderstorms
Firefly, a milk-carton-sized satellite, will study gamma-ray bursts that accompany lightning.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
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NSF's Therese Moretto Jorgensen explains what CubeSats tell us about the atmosphere.
Credit: National Science Foundation
Atmospheric scientist Allan Weatherwax of Siena College offers a glimpse inside a CubeSat.
Credit: National Science Foundation
The Firefly CubeSat will fly through thunderstorms and lightning.
Credit: NASA
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Firefly, as it will look once launched high into the atmosphere above Earth.
Credit: NASA
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Firefly catching a terrestrial gamma ray, or TGF, in action.
Credit: NASA
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