NASA to use UAVs to monitor thunderstorms, aid coffee growers

NASA will use an unmanned aerial vehicle for a research mission to better understand how lightning forms and dissipates during thunderstorms. The remotely piloted, high-flying craft will fly above and around thunderstorms as part of NASA's UAV-based science demonstration program. According to NASA...

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