Jupiter’s Lightning May Have the Force of Nuclear Weapons
How powerful is Jupiter’s lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter for the past decade), researchers determined Jupiter’s lightning bolts are 100 to 10,000 times more energetic than earth’s:

A single bolt of lightning on Earth releases about 1 billion joules of energy. … ⌘ Read more