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Assessing Lightning Risk in South Asia

With lightning killing hundreds of people in Bangladesh and Nepal each year, researchers think space-based observations could help reduce risks.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin using data from NASA DEVELOP (Raphael et al.) Astronaut photograph ISS065-E-386846 was acquired on September 14, 2021, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a focal length of 24 millimeters. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 11, 2022
Data acquired 2001 - 2017

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