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Images taken by the New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)
of Jupiter's night side showed lightning strikes. Each "strike" is
probably the cumulative brightness of multiple strikes. This is the first
lightning seen at high latitudes on Jupiter; it demonstrates that
convection is not confined to lower latitudes, implying an internal
driving heat source. Their power is consistent with previous lightning
measurements at Jupiter's lower latitudes, equivalent to extremely bright
terrestrial "super bolts."
- Image Credit:
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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