Comments on: Lightning strikes in a storm bigger than worlds

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Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:38:17 +0000

[...] his life to communicating science to a broad audience. A particularly interesting post features storms on Saturn. This post combines awe-inspiring images with descriptions that invoke terminology that relate this [...]

By: Marcello

Marcello — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:08:31 +0000

what about the red spot on the middle part of the first picture?
stuck/hot pixel on cassini?

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:28:01 +0000

So, that lightening strike was what, a thousand miles long? Wouldn’t that be a hoot, is a local sentient was standing on his doorstep and said “Izzy was right next to me when Blam, this ole lightening bolt come out of the brown and zapped his ass…boy, was he pissed…”

Gary 7

6. Erik … yes, nearly everything can be useful for a high tech civilization…

By: Quickies: 07/20/2012 | Queereka

Quickies: 07/20/2012 | Queereka — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:55:48 +0000

[...] that a different way: Humans have build craft that can take pictures of LIGHTNING on OTHER PLANETS. Bad Astronomer has more. Categories: [...]

By: Georg

Georg — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:27:55 +0000

Hello Cronian:

“”[...] With a tip of the had to His Badness, Phil Plait! [...]“”

You meant

[...] With a tip of the had to His Baldness, Phil Plait! [...]

didn’t You?

Georg

By: bubba0077

bubba0077 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:55:42 +0000

Given that we aren’t even 100% sure how the charge separation occurs in thunderstorms on Earth, I feel like this is even more remarkable than it would appear at first glance.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:11:17 +0000

In 2010, a storm erupted in Saturn’s northern hemisphere. It grew, and grew, and GREW, until it physically wrapped around the planet.

Somebodies been reading ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar haven’t they?

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:51:23 +0000

@ Grimbold – how cool would it be to construct a livable habitat designed to do the same, and then live in it for a while? I wonder if there would be any industrial or life sustaining use for materials skimmed from the atmosphere of such a world…

By: reidh

reidh — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:27:25 +0000

Storm? looks more like an eructation!

By: Grimbold

Grimbold — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:29:31 +0000

How cool would it be to make a probe consisting of some recording instruments attached to a balloon that would float around in a giant planet’s atmosphere for a long period.