Tonga Volcano Set Off Most Extreme Lightning Ever SeenJune 28, 2023 When Tonga’s underwater Hunga Tonga volcano lost its temper in an eruption on January 15, 2022, it belched gobs of magma and exhaled clouds of ash and water vapor out of the ocean, triggering intense lightning. This was...
The enormous eruption generated hundreds of times more power than an atomic bomb—and the most extreme lightning ever recorded. How did it happen?
It arrived at Saturn on July 1st, 2004 and began its science operations shortly after that. The primary mission lasted 4 years, and then NASA extended its mission two more times. The first ending in 2010, and the second due to end in 2017. But more on that later. Before Cassini, we ...
Well-known volcano Sakurajima erupted Friday evening in southern Japan with a fiery blast that sent lava rolling down its slope.
The SOHO spacecraft took this image of solar filaments, which are massive bubbles of magnetic plasma that are ejected into space.NASA Volcano with Lightning 1982 eruption of Galunggung, Indonesia, accompanied by lightning strikes.USGS Volcano with Lightning ...
Measurements of atmospheric electricity and visual and photographic observations lead us to believe that the electrical activity is caused by the ejection from the volcano into the atmosphere of material carrying a large positive charge. The concentration of charge in the eruption plume as it issued ...
Frequency of lightning strikes throughout the world, based on data from NASA. Credit: Wikipedia/Citynoise Lightning has been observed within the atmospheres of other planets in our Solar System, such as Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. In the case of Venus, the first indications that lightning may ...