Rocket Triggered Lightning
Daily Tech and Science #-1476
Scientists can make lightning by launching small rockets into thunderstorms! These rockets have a super-thin metal wire attached to them, like a kite string, and as the rocket flies up, the wire unrolls behind it. When the rocket reaches a stormy part of the sky that's full of electric energy, the wire acts like a lightning magnet, giving the electricity a path to follow. This triggers a lightning strike that shoots down the wire to the ground!