Jupiter’s lightning bolts contort the same way as Earth’s
Collisions of water and ice might build electric charge in thunderclouds on both planets
![An illustration of blue-gray clouds with bright blue and orange dots of light scattered throughout the image.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/052223_no_JupiterLightning_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Lightning cavorts through Jupiter’s thunderclouds (illustrated) at a rhythm akin to bolts in Earth’s skies.
Gerald Eichstädt, MSSS, SwRI, JPL-Caltech/NASA