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Thunder is the sound of air being blown out of the way, and the bolt heated it hotter than the surface of the sun

Thunder is usually described as the noise lightning makes, which suggests the bolt itself ...
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Perseverance captures the sound of lightning on Mars

In a study published Nov. 26 in Nature, Baptiste Chide, a postdoctoral fellow in planetary acoustics at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and his team report what they believe to be the first evidence ...
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Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA’s Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a ...
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Weather Talk: Thunder in thunderstorms is the sound of lightning

Lightning is an electrical discharge between oppositely charged parts of a cloud or between a cloud and the ground. The lightning flash is really about four pulses, each lasting approximately 30 ...
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Lightning on Mars: Scientists capture crackling sounds

Researchers believe Perseverance recorded 55 instances of "mini lightning," providing the first sound evidence of Martian electrical activity. The lightning occurs during dust storms and dust devils, ...