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Firefly, a milk-carton-sized satellite, will study gamma-ray bursts that accompany lightning. Firefly is a CubeSat; CubeSats are named for the roughly 4-inch-cubed dimensions of their basic building elements, and are stacked with modern, smartphone-like electronics and tiny scientific instruments. Several CubeSat projects funded by NSF are currently in orbit, making first-of-their-kind experiments in space and providing new measurements that help researchers understand Earth's upper atmosphere. Firefly is designed to help solve the mystery of a phenomenon that's linked with lightning: terrestrial gamma rays, or TGFs. Learn more in this discovery feature.

Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
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