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NASA’s Juno mission may have found lightning sprites in the atmosphere of Jupiter – SlashGear
There’s an electrical phenomenon that occurs here on Earth above thunderstorms known as sprites. Here on Earth, the sprites are typically red. NASA scientists pouring…
There’s an electrical phenomenon that occurs here on Earth above thunderstorms known as sprites. Here on Earth, the sprites are typically red. NASA scientists pouring over the data from the Juno mission recently announced that they have discovered sprites in the clouds of Jupiter for the first time. Rather than being red like the sprites on Earth, on Jupiter, they’re blue.
For those unfamiliar, a lightning sprite is a brief but very powerful electrical discharge that happens high in Earth’s atmosphere….
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