Advanced X-Ray Camera Captures Lightning Bolt Strike

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Sometimes with all the technological advances we have made over the last half century we forget all the wondrous things that surround in nature. Most recently an X-Ray camera recorded what a lightning strike looks like when captured by a camera shooting 10 million frames per second.

The X-Ray camera 1,500 pound camera was built by researchers who wanted to learn more about these lightning strikes. Of course it is awful hard to predict where lightning will actually strike and because of this the researchers fired rockets into thunderstorms that were laced with metal lines geared towards drawing the electricity to the certain desired point.

While all this technology seems quite impressive the camera itself is extremely low resolution. With lightning moving as fast as it does it is pretty hard to take a high resolution shot even at 10 million frames per second. Still the photograph does show a pretty detailed look at a lightning bolt looks like when it strikes.