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Lightning Bolts on Jupiter 500 Times as Powerful as on Earth
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Jupiter is well known for its extreme conditions, but what the latest measurements of the U.S. spacecraft Juno have produced is spectacular: thunderstorms on the gas planet resemble a conflict with nuclear weapons in their force. (Read more)
Jupiter's Lightning May Have the Force of Nuclear Weapons
How powerful is Jupiter's lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter for the past decade), researchers determined Jupiter's lightning bolts are 100 to 10,000 times more energetic than earth's: A single bolt o...
Lightning in Jupiter's massive storms is up to 10,000 times more powerful than on Earth. The post On the planet Jupiter, lightning erupts with the power of a nuclear weapon appeared first on in.gr.
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