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am_Unition · 1009 days ago · link · · parent · post: NASA beams back spectacular images of Jupiter and Ganymede
Seeing the lightning flashes only in the taller clouds (the whitest/highest parts catch the most sunlight) makes me think that convection cells and the resulting large-scale charge separation that causes lightning must be a universal thing. Considering how vastly different Jupiter's atmosphere is from ours, chemical composition is apparently an afterthought.