6 billion lightning flashes all concentrated in one area...3,000 billion MEGA joules of energy...What could be the cause?

[link to www.space.com]

STILL IMAGE

Obviously, they are afraid to call this an "electrical discharge", because they would then be asked: "What could possibly be the source?!"

is that RIGHT on the equator?

Yes, but they are trying to say "12 North" which is impossible. It is essentially right on the equator.

pretty cool
the forces of nature are rad

The most massive lightning every witnessed in the solar system.

Sourcing from INSIDE Jupiter...hmmm.

By the way, the previous two lightning flashes (in 2010) were on DIRECT OPPOSITE ENDS OF JUPITER with respect to the CORE ROTATION of Jupiter, separated by 78 days.

Jupiter has never been known to have more than small incidental lightning barely witnessed on the darkside.

THIS IS OCCURRING ON THE DAYSIDE, FOLKS! AND IS STILL MASSIVELY BRIGHT!

It's just "hot gas" under the influence of gravity!

i just captured this one from that vid

[link to imageshack.us]

it shows a round core of charge, or impact flash, surrounded by a larger ring of charge, or impact debris

There WAS NO DEBRIS SPOTTED AT ALL!

just saying what they said about it. i agree it might be electrical

hmm, just noticed something funny about that still of Jupiter I captured. playing about with it in paintnet, I used the curves feature, which brings out stuff in the image, and the side of jupiter away from it's direction of orbit, it's right side as we look at it, seems to be deformed, and where that flash happened seems to be on top of a huge mound on it's side of Jupiter..

[link to makeagif.com]

interesting, eh?

Interesting, probably an artifact of the image creation, varied brightnessness, etc....

i HOPE you're right about that

(:

Jupiter too has an ionosphere, like the Earth.

Something on Jupiter: asteroid hitting, gas explosion/release, etc. would be the most likely cause in my opinion.

Whatever that something did created a conduit between the ionosphere and the 'ground' to Jupiter's core.

BAM! massive electrical discharge just as seen here on Earth.

G1-class solar storm this morning as well...


could have been caused by the sun

could the passing of the comet be the cause?

Jupiter is trying to ignite itself.

Perhaps they sent a nuke?
They tried last month with th flash

maybe

anyone know where to find very recent pics of Jupiter?

Jupiter look realy yellow lately. whats happening???

got any pics? ideally AFTER these images?

i dont have expensive camera to take photos at night. sky is 100% clear 3 days straight here. jupiter is prety much the only one thats color is almost orange. very bright too.

swamp gas

Arrival of Satan?

It comes from the SUN, moran.

The SUN powers the flux in the solar system.

I think you should all learn how tinting and shading works.