Venus' lightning
similar to Earth's
DR EMILY BALDWIN
ASTRONOMY NOW
Posted: 23 September 2010 ...
Lightning and Storm
This Galileo image highlights a convective storm and associated lightning in Jupiter's atmosphere. The left image highlighted area shows the daytime view; the right images show the same area during the night.
Lightning on Venus
Venus Express
New research indicates Venus may have lightning similar to Earth. The lightning may be related to volcanic activity on the surface of the planet.
Lightning storms in Jupiter's clouds
They included closeups of lightning storms in the Jovian atmosphere and a new volcanic feature on Io.
Lightning A sudden electric flow between a thunderstorm cloud and the ground (or another cloud), for a brief instant producing heat and light along its path (and the heat, in turn, producing a sudden expansion of air, which initiates the thunder).
Lightning
File:Blesk.jpgLightning is an Earth's atmosphere discharge of electricity usually accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcano or dust storms....
Lightning/Energetic
Louis Lanzerotti, Bell Particles Laboratory
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Can cause lightning, thunder, hail, strong rains, strong winds, and tornadoes
Near ground up to 75,000 feet
(Vertical clouds)
Cirro-stratus ...
Search for lightning on Saturn and Titan and for active volcanism on Titan, and observe Titan's surface.
[4] BALL LIGHTNING
* One of the enduring small mysteries in science is that of ball lightning, glowing balls of light that exhibit bizarre behavior.
ball lightning (NASA Thesaurus / NASA SP-7, 1965) A relatively rare form of lightning, consisting of a reddish, luminous ball, of the order of 1 foot in diameter, which may move rapidly along solid objects or remain floating in midair.
His numerous scientific and practical innovations include the lightning rod, bifocal spectacles, and a stove. G ...
search for lightning, aurorae, and airglow
investigate the gravitational interactions among Saturn's rings and satellites
determine the nature and rate of energy and momentum transfer within the rings ...
Transmissions are affected by static because lightning and other sources of radio add their radio waves to the ones from the transmitter.
FM radio sends music and voice, with higher fidelity than AM radio.
Astronomers have observed lightning from a number of them.
Jupiter and Saturn
Jupiter and Saturn consist mostly of hydrogen and helium, with heavier elements making up between 3 and 13 percent of the mass .
"Ride The Lightning" by Metallica is also about a man being executed via an electric chair, although he is not ultimately culpable, as through insanity or loss of autonomy.
The discharge may be thought to represent lightning flashes on the early Earth. After several days of exposure to sparking, the solution changed color.
Natural radioactivity, lightning, volcanism, solar ultraviolet radiation, and meteoritic impacts all provided large amounts of energy that eventually shaped the ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, ...
Atmospheric electricity, except for that associated with charges within a cloud and lightning, results from the ionization of the atmosphere by solar radiation and from the movement of clouds of ions carried by atmospheric tides.
Lightning on Jupiter is quite different to that on Earth; striking about ten times less often on Jupiter, Jovian lightning bolts have about ten times more energy than lightning bolts on Earth.
Whistlers and sferics are caused by terrestrial lightning. Whistlers consist of a short burst of sound during which the pitch drops rapidly.
An example of the "time machine effect" in everyday life is to listen for the slower sound of thunder which accompanies a lightning flash; if the thunder follows the lightning by 10 seconds, then it is about 3 km away; ...
It is the driving force behind storms and is responsible for separating electrical charge, which is the cause of lightning.
During the Russian Venera program, the Venera 11 and Venera 12 probes detected a constant stream of lightning, and Venera 12 recorded a powerful clap of thunder soon after it landed.
This includes lightning that is seen in the cloud layers. Also, it is possible to see aurorae near the poles (this can be seen either on the dark side of the planet or using UV telescopes from the Earth). What is causing these features?
Ozone occurs, in an amount supposed to be associated with the development of atmospheric electricity (lightning, &c.); this amount varies with the seasons, being a maximum in spring, ...
It may be that the powerful lightning occurring on Jupiter may be changing some of the chemicals we spoke of into organic material. Organic meaning only carbon based, not meaning associated with life.
Large lightning bolts and extensive aurora have been observed in the Jovian atmosphere, as we will discuss further when we consider Jupiter's magnetic field.
The Great Red Spot ...
Radio waves generated by a flash of lightning, which travel along Earth's magnetic field out beyond the ionosphere and back to Earth.
My early exposure to the aerospace industry at Pratt & Whitney and Boeing, which ranged from working on the F135 engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter "Lightning II," to the PW4000-112 engine for the Boeing 777 commercial airliner, ...
Aquila was thought to carry Zeus' lightning bolts. During the battle against the Titans, Aquila was awesome at this task and helped the Gods win the war.
He was loyal to Zeus and was always perched on his shoulder.
Lightning, more powerful than any that has been experienced on Earth, has been noted in Jupiter's atmosphere. Also in Jupiter's atmosphere are oval features which are thought to be circular winds.
Thunder and lightning storms are common, and the surface pressure is 90 atm. Because of the , the surface temperature is 745 K. The Venusian zonal (east-west) wind blows at 100 m s-1, for a period of only four days at the equator! ...
[442] eta Aquilae or Bezek ("lightning"), is a yellow-white supergiant 3000 times more luminous than the Sun and one of the brightest Cepheid variables that can be seen with the naked eye.
This subsurface flare heated LP 944-20's outer atmosphere so that flowing currents of gas would give rise to an x-ray flare, similar to a stroke of lightning.
Gamma-ray flashes produced in Earth's atmosphere by severe lightning storms and upper atmospheric events.
Van Allen Belt ...
SHOCK WAVE
A shock wave is a very strong pressure wave in any elastic medium (such as air, water, or a solid), produced by supersonic craft, lightning, explosions, or other extreme phenomena that create sudden, huge changes in pressure.
electromagnetic ultra-low frequency radiation observed in planetary magnetospheres; energized by lightning and other discharges.
white dwarf - (n.) ...
Celaeno has often been called the "Lost Pleiad" because she was hit by lightning according to mythology. In reality, the star we call Celaeno is just at the limit of human vision in terms of brightness.
Saturn's clouds contain ammonia, methane, and other toxic compounds. They are buffeted by winds of up to 1,000 miles (1,600 km) per hour, and they contain violent storm systems that produce lightning blasts a million times more powerful than those on ...
One variation of the story has King Lycaon offering Zeus the sacrifice of a young boy, which angered Zeus so much he promptly changed Lycaon into a wolf and struck his house down with lightning, killing all his fifty sons.
If this black hole were placed in our Solar System, it would appear like a dark abyss spread out nearly as wide as Mercury's orbit. And the clumps of matter detected would be as far out as Jupiter. The clumps orbit the black hole in a lightning-quick ...
Before he got there he fell back to Earth; but Pegasus completed the trip and Zeus used him for a while to carry his thunder and lightning, according to Hesiod. Zeus later put Pegasus among the constellations.
Zeus, who sent an insect to sting the winged horse, who bucked Bellerophon off its back. Needless to say, Bellerophon did not survive the fall to Earth. Pegasus went on to greatness, however, as the "Thundering Horse of Jove" who carried lightning ...
a chroniton field, bringing Voyager back into temporal synch only seconds before the chronokinetic surge struck the ship. With only moments, Chakotay was able to reroute power to the main deflector and reset its polarity, using it as a lightning rod ...
 See also: Light, Earth, Time, Field, Atmosphere
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