November 27, 2006
Lightning Likely Cause of Spokes in Saturn’s Rings
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany speculate that the smudges that sometimes appear in Saturn's rings could be caused by massive lightning strikes in the planet's atmosphere. According the researchers, the strikes are ten thousand times more energetic than those on Earth, and "release beams of electrons that surge up from Saturn's surface to whack into the rings and blast out jets of electrically charged dust."
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