Comment on Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on MarsComments−throwawayffffas9moWhat blows my mind is that we had not before. I would think that with all that dust flying around it's got to be pretty common. And we have satellites orbiting Mars for decades and apparently we didn't see any.−irjustin9moThis lightning is only a few centimeters long: https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2025/11/26/at-l...−larodi9mo...perhaps resolution and FPS provided by these orbital cameras are not exactly what one would expect.
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What blows my mind is that we had not before. I would think that with all that dust flying around it's got to be pretty common. And we have satellites orbiting Mars for decades and apparently we didn't see any.
This lightning is only a few centimeters long: https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2025/11/26/at-l...
...perhaps resolution and FPS provided by these orbital cameras are not exactly what one would expect.