How Jupiter's lightning looks and how it is created is vastly different than it is on Earth.
It turns out Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with thunderstorms. NASA's Juno mission captured the glow left from a bolt of lightning.
In a newly released picture, a green bolt of lightning was spotted in the middle of a Jupiter storm. The image was captured in December on Juno's 31st flyby of the planet. While thunderstorms on Earth are fueled by water vapor, storms on Jupiter are powered by clouds containing an ammonia-water solution. These storms are more likely to form near the planet's poles, NASA said.
Because Juno is beginning a mission to study Jupiter at night, it is more likely to capture these vivid thunderstorms. This was not the first time Juno has captured lightning on Jupiter. Lightning was first observed on Jupiter in 1979 during Voyager's mission. "Juno's close flybys of the cloud tops allowed us to see something surprising — smaller, shallower flashes — originating at much higher altitudes in Jupiter's atmosphere than previously assumed possible," Heidi Becker, Juno's Radiation Monitoring Investigation lead, said in 2020."At these altitudes, the ammonia acts like an antifreeze, lowering the melting point of water ice and allowing the formation of a cloud with ammonia-water liquid.
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