Lightning on Jupiter?

Yeah. That's right! There's lightning on Jupiter!

But for a long time, no one knew for certain. In fact, until 1979, lightning on Jupiter was just a hypothesis; its existence wasn’t confirmed until NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft picked up radio signals typically indicative of lightning. There was just one catch: the radio waves were in a completely different range from lightning found on Earth.

In the decades that followed, NASA’s Voyager 2, Galileo and Cassini spacecraft also discovered radio evidence of lightning on Jupiter. But the instruments used in these missions weren’t sensitive enough to provide a full picture of Jovian lightning. After Juno arrived in the Jupiter system in July 2016, however, data started trickling in: the spacecraft’s Microwave Radiometer Instrument (MWR) detected 377 lightning discharges in its first eight flybys.

Here's an awesome image of it from the Juno mission in 2016:

Interested in reading more info about this incredible mystery?

Read the full article by The Planetary Society here!

https://www.planetary.org/articles/lightning-on-jupiter-unsolved-mysteries?fbclid=IwAR074utMGgbSkj4opNDLOH8R7SIe5TU52Dwm5-3NiK11GAbdeqX0vjtQCZU