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Space Shuttle Atlantis payload bay backdropped by the ISS, STS129E November 2009. 🌎🚀

New results from our Juno mission suggest the planet is home to “shallow lightning.” An unexpected form of electrical discharge, shallow lightning comes from a unique ammonia-water solution. ⁣

⁣It was previously thought that lightning on Jupiter was similar to Earth, forming only in thunderstorms where water exists in all its phases – ice, liquid, and gas. But flashes observed at altitudes too cold for pure liquid water to exist told a different story. This illustration uses data obtained by the mission to show what these high-altitude electrical storms look like. ⁣

Understanding the inner workings of Jupiter allows us to develop theories about atmospheres on other planets and exoplanets! ⁣

Illustration Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Heidi N. Becker/Koji Kuramura⁣

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Earth gravity vs Martian gravity vs Lunar gravity

“We’re incredibly lucky to be able to be working where we are, up above the Earth, and being able to see our planet from that vantage point.” -Laurel Clark, STS-107

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Space Travellers by Fred Augis

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