To create artificial lightning, scientists used the so-called shock generator.
Chinese scientists under the leadership of CANSO is the first time were able to measure the temperature inside a lightning bolt. The results of the work they published in the journal Scientific Reports.
To create artificial lightning, scientists used the so-called shock generator that can create discharges with currents up to tens of thousands of amps. In the generated discharge was able to measure the temperature of the plasma, which ranged from 6 to 10 thousand degrees Celsius.
In addition, the researchers found that the temperature inside of the discharge channel and the strength of the current associated logarithmic law, in agreement with the theoretical calculations for natural lightning.
