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NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures incredible footage of lightning on Jupiter – Mirror Online
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has filmed stunning video footage of ‘shallow lightning’ and ‘mushballs’ on the dark side of Jupiter
NASA s Juno spacecraft has captured incredible footage of lightning on the dark side of Jupiter.
While previous missions have indicated that lightning flashes on Jupiter occur in storms around 28 to 40 miles below the visible clouds, the new footage indicates that this isnt the case.
Heidi Becker, Junos Radiation Monitoring Investigation lead at NASA, explained: Juno’s close flybys of the cloud tops allowed us to see something surprising smaller, shallower flashes originating at much higher…
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