Lightning photographed by superfast X-ray camera

Here’s a picture of a lightning taken, but don’t you feel that it looks weird? There’s the green stuff that you never see before. That’s because you’re not using a 1,500-pound heavy X-ray camera. That’s a picture of a lightning taken using an X-ray camera that shoots crazier than Sergeant Frank Woods. Ten million frames per second. That’s how fast the thing can shoot. But the story of the photo is more than just ten million and some luck.

You see, the lightning is human-made. That’s why they know where and when to use the camera. This was done by shooting rockets into thunderstorms, with attached wires directing the flow of energy down into their target zone. The imagery produced from the X-ray sensor is actually extremely low-res — a 30-pixel hexagonal grid is all you get — but it’s enough to show that X-ray radiation is concentrated at the tip of the lightning bolt. What’s the point of all these? Well, nobody really knows.

SOURCE via National Geographic