Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 2001
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American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #33, #11.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1039
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We compare the images of Jovian lightning taken by Galileo spacecraft with the images of terrestrial lightning observed by Lightning Imaging Spectrometer (LIS) onboard of the TERRA spacecraft. Both data sets have good spatial resolution: Galileo's pixel is 25 km, or about half the atmospheric scale height, LIS pixel is 3-6 km, also about half of the scale height. This good resolution allows us to see that both Jovian and terrestrial lightning spots look diffuse because of the scattering in the clouds above. Previously we used the appearance of the diffuse spots on Jupiter to model lightning depths and the opacity and shape of the overlying clouds (Dyudina and Ingersoll, 2000). The comparison with LIS data allowed us to verify that the model is valid for terrestrial lightning. The irregular shapes of large terrestrial lightning suggests 30-km scale horizontal bolts. On Jupiter the spots, projected onto the horizontal plane, are nearly circular suggesting that the large size of the spots is mostly due to the horizontal diffusion of the photons scattered in the clouds. Unlike the Galileo observations, LIS has fine temporal resolution of 2 ms, or about 250 frames per single lightning flash. We will discuss the temporal evolution of terrestrial flashes and its implications for Jupiter. U. A. Dyudina and A. P Ingersoll, ``Modeling of Jovian Lightning Imaged by Galileo SSI Camera", B.A.S.S. 32(3) 997, (2000)
Boccippio D.
Dyudina Ulyana A.
Ingersoll P. A. P. A.
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