Lightning bolts on Jupiter 500 times as powerful as on Earth

Maria Simulescu

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter for 10 years. During that time, it has studied the huge storms on the planet, such as the Great Red Spot, which is larger than Earth. New data shows that lightning strikes inside Jupiter's atmosphere may be more than 500 times as powerful than on Earth. Lead author Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, published the study in the journal AGU Advances . "Convection operates a little bit differently on Earth