Lightning, Crackles and Pops

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Aug. 5, 2004

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The speckles in this graph are radio signals from lightning in Saturn's atmosphere detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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