A NASA spacecraft circling Jupiter has captured the planet’s colorful electrical outbursts — sprites and elves — for the first time
Summary List Placement NASA's Juno spacecraft just captured images of colorful bursts of lightning-like electricity high in Jupiter's atmosphere. These phenomena, which include jellyfish-shaped "sprites" and glowing disks called "elves," also occur high up in Earth's atmosphere during thunderstorms. They were first documented in 1989. Scientists predicted that other planets that have lightning, like Jupiter,…
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