Lightning Strike Investigated
- Episode aired May 24, 2006
- 45m
Faster than a speeding bullet, six times hotter than the surface of the sun, it can turn sand to glass, and lasts less than a fraction of a second. Lightning strikes our planet up to eight m... Read allFaster than a speeding bullet, six times hotter than the surface of the sun, it can turn sand to glass, and lasts less than a fraction of a second. Lightning strikes our planet up to eight million times every day. It is one of nature's most well observed events but also one of th... Read allFaster than a speeding bullet, six times hotter than the surface of the sun, it can turn sand to glass, and lasts less than a fraction of a second. Lightning strikes our planet up to eight million times every day. It is one of nature's most well observed events but also one of the most mysterious. To unlock its secrets, Naked Science follows a lightning bolt on its in... Read all