Thunderstorm Antimatter Detected by NASA
Posted by Target on 1/11/2011, 3:59 pm
Solid evidence for positrons from thunderstorms is being reported by NASA:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/fermi-thunderstorms.html



'On Dec. 14, 2009, while NASA's Fermi flew over Egypt, the spacecraft intercepted a particle beam from a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF) that occurred over its horizon. Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor detected the signal of positrons annihilating on the spacecraft -- not once, but twice. After passing Fermi, some of the particles reflected off of a magnetic "mirror" point and returned. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center'



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