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Faster than a speeding bullet, six times hotter than the surface of the sun, it can turn sand to glass, and lasts less than a fraction of a second. Lightning strikes our planet up to eight million times every day. It is one of nature's most well observed events but also one of the most mysterious. To unlock its secrets, Naked Science follows a lightning bolt on its incredible journey from outer space to deep inside the human body. Australia's own Darwin is host to some of the most violent lightning storms on earth. Venture into the heart of a monster storm cloud to observe the mysterious forces that trigger a lightning bolt. Dramatic new research and shocking experiments reveal lightning is one of the strangest, most destructive and important phenomena on Earth.
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