Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed ...

The space agency recently released a vivid image from the Jupiter-orbiting mission, showing the glow from lightning inside a Jovian storm. Amid this swirling vortex, the flash happened in clouds ...

and large storms that generate mushballs and lightning. "Every time you look at Jupiter, it's mostly just surface level," Moeckel said. "It's shallow, but a few things -- vortices and these big ...

This is despite the two planets' major differences—Jupiter is a huge gas planet while Earth is rocky. It's no secret that lightning occurs on Jupiter, and while it has been difficult to analyze ...

In a newly released picture, a green bolt of lightning was spotted in the middle of a Jupiter storm. The image was captured in December on Juno's 31st flyby of the planet. While thunderstorms on ...

its nature needs to equalize the temperature differences that result in storms – mixing equatorial heat with the cold poles. Most lightning occurs closer to our equator. Jupiter doesn't have ...

NASA said both Earth and Jupiter-borne storms can carry lightning. To compare, some of Earth's largest severe storms will stretch about 60,000-70,000 feet tall or about 11 to 13 miles. NASA said ...

Shallow Lightning and Mushy Hail: Violent Storms on Jupiter Are Weirder Than We Thought UC Berkeley graduate student Chris Moeckel and astronomy professor Imke de Pater co-authored the study ...

The storms likely extend around 60 miles (100 kilometers) below Jupiter's swirling surface and, although their exact widths have not been calculated yet, both storms "are wide enough to swallow ...

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed in 2020 to ...