He worked there with Cesare M. G. Lattes (one of the discoverers of the centauro events) produced by collisions of very high energy cosmic rays with the atmosphere or with target atoms.
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The fascist regime looked favourably on Pion's company, especially after he invented the so-called camion sonoro (sound-lorry), a lorry mounted on a Fiat 508 wheelbase carrying a screen and a movie projector, which, apart from playing films, could also bring propagandist speeches around the major squares.
The heart of the Spektr payload was an experimental optical telescope code-named "Pion” (Peony).