One of the most exciting aspects of weather is the thunderstorm.
So what happens on Jupiter?
We know that lightning occurs on Jupiter. The Galileo orbiter made images of lightning on the night side of Jupiter.
and these lightning bolts are hundreds of times more powerful than lightning on the Earth.
In a way this is surprising because Jupiter gets less sunlight, less energy from the sun than the Earth does, because it's much farther from the sun.
With Juno, we want to understand the structure of these thunderstorms.
We want to understand where these parcels begin to rise, how much water is in them, how they're organized,
are they larger than terrestrial thunderstorms and why it actually has thunderstorms and super lightning.
Juno will be able to tell us that.