While you can find thousands of pictures of lightning on the web, until now no one has ever been able to take a picture of thunder. This week, however, scientists at the Southwest Research Institute in Antonio, Texas released a news story describing their first successful attempts to make images of the thunder itself. By shooting a long copper wire into an appropriate cloud they were able to initiate lightning and capture the sound wave from the resulting lightning stroke.
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