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First results on Jovian lightning

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The geometric reduction of the discovery picture of lightning on the dark side of Jupiter relates the positions of the lightning flashes to visible cloud structure.

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  1. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory, and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138

    A. F. Cook II

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91103

    T. C. Duxbury

  3. Laboratory for Planetary Atmospheres, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, WC1, UK

    G. E. Hunt

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Cook, A., Duxbury, T. & Hunt, G. First results on Jovian lightning. Nature 280, 794 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/280794a0

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