Lightning shines like Earth on Jupiter clouds of water are hidden says Juno Spacecraft Data

Thanks to the Juno spacecraft of the American space agency NASA, scientists have got important information about the planet Jupiter. They discovered that beneath the brown ammonia clouds that cover Jupiter are hidden clouds that, like Earth, are made of water. Like Earth, lightning is often generated in these clouds too. Till now scientists have not been able to understand why despite the huge difference between the two planets, the process of lightning is similar in them.

Juno Spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter for the past several years. It is the largest and a gaseous planet in our solar system. It is so big that all the planets can fit in it. About 1300 Earths can fit in it. After analyzing the data of the last 5 years of Juno spacecraft, scientists obtained interesting information.

news agency reuters Report According to, scientists found that the process of lightning in Jupiter is the same as it happens on Earth. Planetary scientist Ivana Kolmasova of the Czech Academy of Sciences said that lightning is a type of electrical discharge, which is caused by thunder. He said that this happens due to the collision of ice and water particles present in the clouds. Lightning on Jupiter was first detected in 1979.
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft had collected information about this. The special thing is that lightning has also been detected in many other gas planets of the solar system – Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Some evidence has also been found regarding the planet Venus, but it has not been confirmed. At the same time, the rate of lightning on Jupiter and Earth is the same, but the distribution is different. The scientists’ findings have been published this week in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.

The planet Jupiter is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium. Storms keep coming on this planet which has a diameter of about 1 lakh 43 thousand kilometers. Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 and collecting information about its atmosphere, internal structure, magnetic field etc.