Juno's path relative to lightning strikes (IMAGE)

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Juno's path relative to lightning strikes

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NASA's Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter's atmosphere on 17 August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing for each pulse). Background map from the Hubble Space Telescope  identified the lightning source as an isolated "stealth superstorm." 

Credit

Wong et al. (2026, AGU Advances; HST and Juno MWR).

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