Mysterious Lightning Bolts Seen on Jupiter | Huge Space Discovery | Videonium Universe

The solar system comprises the Sun, all the planets including earth, and their corresponding satellites. Whereas lightning strikes are quite common on our planet, they may or may not be occurring on other planets or their satellites. Well, that is what astronomers thought until now. Quite recently, space scientists made a startling discovery. They already knew that storms occur regularly on Jupiter. However, they have now discovered that lightning bolts are also quite common on this planet. The involved mechanism is quite interesting. Storms at deeper atmospheric layers toss water-ice crystals up into the higher layers, approximately 16 miles above Jupiter’s water clouds. At this high altitude, the ice crystals come into contact with ammonia. This results into the formation of an ammonia-water mixture. At this level, the temperatures reach -88 degrees Celsius, but the ammonia melts the incoming ice by lowering the melting point of water ice and allowing the formation of a cloud with ammonia-water liquid. The falling droplets of ammonia-water liquid can collide with the water-ice crystals moving upwards and electrify the clouds, thus giving rise to huge lightning bolts. Publication link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c... Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/CNRS https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/... Music credits: Dangerous by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ #Jupiter #astronomy #universe Make sure you like, comment, and subscribe. Do share this video with your network on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. Need a professionally created video for promoting your service, product, event, or something else? Let https://videonium.com help you.