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"Mars might actually have lightning but not the dramatic bolts we see on Earth". Instead, its massive dust storms create electrical charges that discharge as tiny, short lived sparks. Because of the planet’s thin atmosphere, this lightning is faint and hard to detect.


MAVEN probe captures signature of a "whistler"

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