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Everyone can take a shot of lightning, just wait right moment. What about thunder? Thunder is not visual, but sound phenomenon, so it would seem impossible to photograph. However, a specialist from American Research Institute in San Antonio held an experiment that allowed him to capture image quality peals of thunder.
In the report that Maher Dayeh presented at the meeting United States Geophysical Union, scientists were demonstrated acoustic maps of sound waves arising from peals of thunder in bad weather. Such an image from a certain point view can really be called a photograph of sound atmospheric phenomenon accompanying lightning discharges.
To bring his interesting idea to life, Dayeh with state permission went to one of the military training grounds Florida. From there, the specialist launched a special metal a rocket directly into a thundercloud, which provoked lightning. The researcher caught the acoustics of thunder peals using Fifteen special microphones mounted on the ground.
According to Maher, thunder and lightning are spontaneous and unpredictable natural phenomena. However, they can be studied, resorting to artificial induction. American experiment not only allowed him to obtain an image for the first time thunder, but also determine that its volume is directly proportional lightning charge power.
Is such an experiment practical? Hard say, however, the experimenter himself claims that great discoveries often started (prepared) just from the analysis and insights into the very essence of seemingly uninteresting and practically unused natural phenomena.
