# @universityofutah on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C1C5V1qP_oO
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10391093-universityofutah-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/4ab75a1a29.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-12-19T18:54:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The University of Utah (@universityofutah) — https://gondola.cc/universityofutah

## Caption

For the first time ever, the #UofU-led Telescope Array in Utah’s West Desert captured footage of lightning-triggered downward terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. A special camera running at 40,000 frames per second gave an unprecedented look at how gamma rays burst downwards to the Earth’s surface from cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. They found that not only were multiple gamma rays produced at later lightning stages than previously thought, but the rays were also associated with a pulse of optical light that had never been recorded. ⚡️🌩️

Read more at the LINK in our bio. 
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#UofUresearch #ImagineU #lightningstrike

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## Tags

uofu, imagineu, lightningstrike, uofuresearch

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