Predictions of lightning activity at Neptune

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Aug 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989georl..16..937b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 16, Aug. 1989, p. 937-939.

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Lightning, Neptune Atmosphere, Satellite Observation, Electric Fields, Energy Dissipation, Jupiter Atmosphere, Voyager Project, Neptune, Lightning, Hypotheses, Frequency, Latitude, Nightside, Energy, Comparisons, Atmosphere, Dissipation

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Spacecraft observations of the seven innermost planets suggest that lightning is present on all planets with dense atmospheres. Thus lightning may be expected to occur on Neptune as well. Based on the level of lightning activity observed on Jupiter and on the assumption that the lightning energy dissipation rate is a constant fraction of the dissipation rate of the convective energy, the lightning rate on Neptune is estimated to be 1/19 that observed on Jupiter. It is predicted that approximately 60 events should be recorded by the Voyager imager during its search of the nightside of Neptune.

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