Click to viewThis television here is of lighting flashing on Saturn , and it ’s the first ever capture of lightning not happening justly here on satellite Earth .
The grounds of lightning on Saturn has been around for years in the form of radiocommunication signals , but this is the first TV and audio evidence of the phenomena ever captured . It was remove by the Cassini ballistic capsule of Saturn ’s dark side .
The video was shoot over 16 moment and compressed down into the 10 seconds that you see here . The swarm , which is about 1,900 naut mi along its longest side , is illuminated by the reflection of Saturn ’s rings . Each blink of an eye is about 190 miles ( 300 klick ) across with an energy like to the most intense lightning here on Earth . In real time , they last for about one second .
he scranch soundtrack to the video is synthetic . It come end the actual sounds received by Cassini ’s radio recording instrument , which are above the human hearing mountain chain .
[ Wired Science ]
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