The 86th edition of https://fscience-old.originis.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GLOC_Oslo_Norway_S2_27juillet2022_web-2-1.jpgMAG is dedicated to the 100% French Taranis microsatellite which is to analyze the impact of lightning and thunder on energy transfers.
Editorial of Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of https://fscience-old.originis.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GLOC_Oslo_Norway_S2_27juillet2022_web-2-1.jpg :
Sprites, elves, jets… few people know that scientists habitually use such other-worldly words to describe what are less poetically called transient luminous events or TLEs, the flashes and electromagnetic emissions that occur during active storms just a few tens of kilometers over our heads. But what are the physical processes and mechanisms behind these phenomena discovered barely 30 years ago? Do they impact the physics and chemistry of the upper atmosphere, the environment or even humans? And is it the electrical activity inside storms that sparks terrestrial gamma-ray flashes observed in addition to cosmic gamma rays? Such are the challenges facing the French Taranis satellite that will be riding aloft this autumn atop a Vega launcher from the Guiana Space Centre. From a brilliant idea conceived by the French scientific community to its fruition by https://fscience-old.originis.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GLOC_Oslo_Norway_S2_27juillet2022_web-2-1.jpg, 20 years have passed. Much time and effort have been expended to overcome the technical hurdles and get eight extremely sensitive and responsive instruments dedicated to probing the physics of phenomena above storms to co-habit on a Myriade-series microsatellite. Read the full story in this issue of https://fscience-old.originis.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GLOC_Oslo_Norway_S2_27juillet2022_web-2-1.jpgMAG focused entirely on the Taranis mission that is set to reveal the hidden side of storms.
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