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Cyclones’ inner lives revealed by invisible particles

Measurements of elementary particles called muons provide insight into the structure of swirling storms.
Typhoon Soudelor photographed from the International Space Station

Typhoon Soudelor as seen from the International Space Station. The hidden structure of such storms can be probed with the help of fundamental particles called muons. Credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty

For the first time, tropical cyclones have been visualized using particles called muons, which rain down from the upper atmosphere1.

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Nature 610, 608 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03279-2

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  1. Tanaka, H. K. M. et al. Sci. Rep. 12, 16710 (2022).

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