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One of the most exciting aspects of weather is the thunderstorm.

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So what happens on Jupiter?

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We know that lightning occurs on Jupiter. 
The Galileo orbiter made images of lightning on the night side of Jupiter.

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and these lightning bolts are hundreds of times
more powerful than lightning on the Earth.

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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.

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With Juno, we want to understand the structure of these thunderstorms.

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We want to understand where these parcels begin to rise,
how much water is in them, how they're organized,

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are they larger than terrestrial thunderstorms
and why it actually has thunderstorms and super lightning.

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Juno will be able to tell us that.