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Cool NASA illustrations of Jupiter’s lightning and atmospheric “mushballs” – Boing Boing
Piloting a craft through Jupiter’s atmosphere would be very hard due to massive bolts of “shallow lightning” and the equally scary giant “mushballs” of water and ammon…
Piloting a craft through Jupiter’s atmosphere would be very hard due to massive bolts of “shallow lightning” and the equally scary giant “mushballs” of water and ammonia that fall like hail. To celebrate the 9th anniversary of Juno, NASA shared some cool illustrations and a visualization of what it would feel like to fly through a Jovian storm.The mushball findings solve a mystery of Jupiter’s “missing” ammonia. Scientists believed the planet had more ammonia than was being observed by sensors:A…
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