Billion Volt Storm
The most powerful thunderstorm on record, with an electric potential of 1.3 billion volts, has been measured by scientists from Japan and India.
They made the novel discovery by using a muon telescope located in Southern India to estimate the intensity of the record storm by measuring the flow of the high-energy muon particles it blocked.
Muons are subatomic particles that rain down after being created when cosmic rays collide with Earth’s upper atmosphere.
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