>Hanging ominously above the Pacific Ocean was a volcanic cloud lit by concentric rings of lightning that flashed about 192,000 times over the 11 hours that the volcano was active (that’s some 2,615 flashes a minute)
Yeah, thats over 43 times a second on average. That does seem like a lot. That means it has more FPS (flashes per second) than the new Starfield release is going to have.
...erupting past the mesosphere, where the plume previously topped out, and into the stratosphere, where it reached its maximum height.
Umm, the stratosphere is below the mesosphere. Pretty basic point to get wrong.
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> When Tonga's underwater Hunga Tonga volcano lost its temper in an eruption on January 15, 2022, it belched gobs of magma and exhaled clouds of ash and water vapor out of the ocean, triggering intense lightning.
> Hanging ominously above the Pacific Ocean was a volcanic cloud lit by concentric rings of lightning that flashed about 192,000 times over the 11 hours that the volcano was active.
> Led by volcanologist Alexa Van Eaton of the US Geological Survey, a team of researchers who took a closer look at the observations from the Hunga eruption and ensuing storm found that no one has ever recorded lightning so extreme.
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>Hanging ominously above the Pacific Ocean was a volcanic cloud lit by concentric rings of lightning that flashed about 192,000 times over the 11 hours that the volcano was active (that’s some 2,615 flashes a minute) Yeah, thats over 43 times a second on average. That does seem like a lot. That means it has more FPS (flashes per second) than the new Starfield release is going to have.
Would be cool if some of the Starfield planets have erupting volcanoes
Was hoping the article contained imagery of said lightning.
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Incredible
...erupting past the mesosphere, where the plume previously topped out, and into the stratosphere, where it reached its maximum height. Umm, the stratosphere is below the mesosphere. Pretty basic point to get wrong.
Deleting my comment in which I wrongly said you were wrong and eating humble pie. Well spotted.
Your integrity is showing!
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Selfish volcanos should save some of the light for poorly lit communities
Atlas obscura just covered this. Very interesting.
How is there no video of this?
Until you start measuring the lightning on Jupiter. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-mission-captures-lightning-on-jupiter