The great Venus lightening debate - going 40 years now!
https://www.space.com/parker-solar-probe-truth-lightning-venus
The researchers saw those whistler waves heading downward toward the planet, not outward like the direction Earth's lightning-induced whistler waves move to propagate through the atmosphere. "They were heading backward from what everybody had been imagining for the last 40 years," David Malaspina, co-author of the study and an assistant professor at LASP.
From there, the team theorized that the waves stem from disturbances in the planet's magnetic fields. Or, more specifically, the idea is that magnetic field lines surrounding Venus may break apart then snap back together, in turn producing bursts of energy exhibited as none other than whistler waves.
https://www.space.com/parker-solar-probe-truth-lightning-venus
The researchers saw those whistler waves heading downward toward the planet, not outward like the direction Earth's lightning-induced whistler waves move to propagate through the atmosphere. "They were heading backward from what everybody had been imagining for the last 40 years," David Malaspina, co-author of the study and an assistant professor at LASP.
From there, the team theorized that the waves stem from disturbances in the planet's magnetic fields. Or, more specifically, the idea is that magnetic field lines surrounding Venus may break apart then snap back together, in turn producing bursts of energy exhibited as none other than whistler waves.
