NASA’s Juno orbiter has observed lightning rolling across the tops of the gas giant Jupiter’s cloud tops. ... Here on Earth, we’re used to large storms producing a whole bunch of lightning.

Was it a cosmic jellyfish, a fleeting light trick, or something more outlandish? When NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took a ...

Jupiter, much farther from the sun, creates most of its heat internally, leading to different convection patterns that drive lightning to the poles (SN: 3/31/18, p. 10).

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed ...

Jupiter’s lightning and large storms form both in and around large convective cells positioned over deep clouds. While multiple robotic space missions have visited Jupiter, ...

Jupiter’s similarity to our home planet was confirmed by the second study, led by Dr Ivana Kolmašová, which found a similar rate of lightning strikes to those found in thunderstorms on Earth.

It turns out Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with thunderstorms. NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning. In a newly released picture, a green bolt of ...

NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning. It turns out Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with thunderstorms. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays ...

What the Storms of Jupiter Can Teach Us. Published May 23, 2023 at 11:00 AM EDT Updated May 23, ... From this data they found that lightning on Jupiter had time separation of about one millisecond.

Jupiter is a massive, swirling mass of towering storm clouds, and anyone who lives on Earth knows that storms are fantastic at producing lightning. When … ...

It turns out Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with thunderstorms. NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning. In a newly released picture, a green bolt of ...

How Jupiter's lightning looks and how it is created is vastly different than it is on Earth. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Menu.