Wait! That makes it a giant capacitor!
I wonder how many farads.
Wait! That makes it a giant capacitor!
I wonder how many farads.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/science/mars-lightning-nasa.html
From the post:
>It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists reported on Wednesday. What they observed, however, were not jagged, high-voltage bolts like those on Earth, arcing thousands of feet from cloud to ground. Rather, the phenomenon was more like the shock you feel when you scuff your feet on the carpet on a cold winter morning and then touch a metal doorknob. “This is like mini-lightning on Mars,” Baptiste Chide, a scientist at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetary Science in Toulouse, France, said of the centimeter-scale electrical discharges.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/science/mars-lightning-nasa.html
From the post:
>>It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists reported on Wednesday.
What they observed, however, were not jagged, high-voltage bolts like those on Earth, arcing thousands of feet from cloud to ground.
Rather, the phenomenon was more like the shock you feel when you scuff your feet on the carpet on a cold winter morning and then touch a metal doorknob.
“This is like mini-lightning on Mars,” Baptiste Chide, a scientist at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetary Science in Toulouse, France, said of the centimeter-scale electrical discharges.