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NASA’s Juno craft has found some weird stuff in Jupiter’s atmosphere – Digital Trends
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has found some striking oddities in the planet’s atmosphere, including a different type of lightning and slushy hail mushballs.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has found some striking oddities in the planet’s atmosphere, including exotic lightning and slushy hail “mushballs.”
Juno spotted an unusual form of lightning which is formed not from water clouds, like lightning is here on Earth, but from an ammonia-water solution. This “shallow lightning” sparks through Jupiter’s atmosphere, creating flashes which were captured by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit camera.
This illustration uses data obtained by NASA’s Juno mission to depic…
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