Giant Planet Lightning in Nonideal Gases

Lightning has been directly observed or inferred on all giant planets, generally accepted to be occurring in their water clouds. However, much as Earth has both cloud–cloud and cloud–ground lightning, this does not mean all flashes occur in a narrow altitude range: on Jupiter, the Galileo spacecraft...

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Main Authors: Yury S. Aglyamov, Jonathan Lunine, Sushil Atreya, Tristan Guillot, Heidi N. Becker, Steven Levin, Scott J. Bolton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Planetary Science Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/acd750