A European Space Agency lightning imager has captured strikes across Africa, one of the most active regions on the planet.
The footage was taken from the European Space Agency's Lightning Imager, which is aboard the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites' Meteosat weather satellites. The lightning is shown creeping across central Africa in large clusters over several days.
The Lightning Imager can detect lightning during both day and night from a distance of 22,300 miles. It has four cameras, each observing Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of South America, and is capable of taking up to 1,000 images per second. "The animations show the instrument's ability to accurately and effectively detect lightning activity over the whole area of the cameras' field of view, which covers 84 percent of the Earth disc," Simonetta Cheli, ESA's director of Earth Observation Programs, said in a statement from the agency.electrostatic discharge
that occurs between the atmosphere and the ground, releasing around a gigajoule of energy with each strike and heating the air to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit for a split second. Lightning occurs most often in tropical and subtropical latitudes, and Africa is the continent with the most frequent strikes. Central Africa, in particular, is a hot spot for lightning. Eight of the 10 most struck regions are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, making the country the most thunderstorm-prone country on Earth, says MeteoSwiss, Switzerland's Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology. The Kabare district sees 205 lightning strikes per square kilometer every year.
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