Saturn Struck By Lightning

Saturn Cassini mission team members from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab recount their observations of lightning bolts flashing in the outer regions of Saturn's atmosphere.

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Science & Technology

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• saturn
• planets
• jpl
• nasa
• space
• universe
• solar
• system
• lightning
• weather

[depletable]

Can you tell me if finally discovering lightning exists on Saturn can benefit us in any way? Not tryna be a douche -- I am wondering if it's just curiosity or we needed that to some degree.

[SpaceRip]

@depletable You may not know this, the Cassini mission has sent back enough information to spawn over 1000 scientific papers. The discovery of lightning may not affect you personally, but it's part of a vast expansion of our knowledge about the universe over the last few decades. Some may disagree, but I'd argue that this ultimately betters humanity. Anyone else wish to weigh in?

[dianyee]

very nice..i gain some knowlegde

[NightmareCinemas]

i like to see the surface of saturn

[iLOVENATURE2011]

i learned a lot from this video...im a curious person, so this vid interests me a lot.

[jhayfaust03]

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[XklecksmonstaaX]

@depletable if we are starting to talk about what we need and what not, you´d live at the end without any pleasure. Why do we need some freaking dumb television series? Why do we need hobbys? All that we need to survive, is a warm place to live, something to eat and to drink, and sleep. So why have we all the rest? Well, because it makes us at some degree happy, and it´s what we are interested in. It´s important to force missions like that, cause some people of us want to know whats it all about

[ParasiteJR]

@veronicats100 He is not talking about a sonic boom like we would hear on earth, but a radio frequancy.

Unlike sound waves, radio waves can travle space. 

[sjw40364a]

Perhaps that space isn't so electrically neutral after all despite modern cosmology's claims to the contrary? Hmmm, maybe it is an Electric universe after all.

[TheChrisducky]

Did anyone's right eardrum suddently began hurting after hearing Saturn's thunder?

[veronicats100]

Something is clearly wrong here. This "scientist" seems to state and uses the word sound, that the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, is hearing the noise of lightning.

He must know that is impossible. What the heck is he talking about!

[halo3bomm]

on saturn if theres lightnig and if the lightning strikes were would it go

[123ilikecheese456]

@SpaceRip Are you a compeny, or just one person?