Jul 26 1994
From The Space Library
NASA announced that scientists at its Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, and the New York Medical College (NYMC) in Valhalla, New York, were using satellite remote sensing and computer technology to predict the risk of Lyme disease transmission. The NASA team, working with Dr. Durland Fish of NYMC and Westchester County Health Department investigators, found that the higher the proportion of vegetated residential area next to woods within a municipality, the higher the transmission risk. (NASA Release 94-123)
NASA announced that it had recorded on video for the first time hundreds of spectacular red and blue flashes of light that extended upward from electrical thunderstorms to altitudes as high as 60 miles. The flashes occurred over thunderstorms in the Midwest between June 28 and July 12 during a NASA-sponsored investigation into the phenomenon. The principal investigators were two University of Alaska, Fairbanks professors, Davis Sentman and Eugene Wescott, who used special low-light-level cameras aboard two jet air-craft flown out of Oklahoma City. (NASA Release 94-124; W Post, Aug 1/94)
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