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GRAPES-3 muon telescope at Ooty
March 27 , 2019
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- For the first time in the World, researchers at the GRAPES-3 muon telescope facility in Ooty, India have measured the electrical potential, size and height of a thundercloud.
- Learning about the properties of thunderclouds can be useful in navigation of aircraft and in preventing short circuits.
- The subatomic particle muon is similar to the electron, with an electric charge of −1e and a spin of 1/2, but with a much greater mass.
- The GRAPES-3 experiment (or Gamma Ray Astronomy PeV EnergieS phase-3) is a collaboration of India’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Japan’s Osaka City University and Nagoya Women’s University.
- GRAPES-3 is designed to study cosmic rays with an array of air shower detectors and a large area muon detector.
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