TomStudent - Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:43:49 PM

Lightning on Venus.  There has been thought about it since the 1978 but not enough proof to prove it.  The reason why they could not prove it is because of signal interference that could have happened.   But with a magnetic antenna on the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe proved that the lightning was real.  the scientific community found this very interesting because lighting affects the atmospheric chemistry.  the lightning is only cloud to cloud right now not cloud to ground.  Venus normally has weather that is little change such as 400 years of steady winds but now with the lightning it adds interest back into Venus to which they say it might be Earths evil twin.

I found the quite interesting.  What ever has to deal with lightning I like.  If we could now possibly gain some kind of knowledge from this lightning that is happening.  Could we some way have that help us understand how life was formed or just how Venus is Venus.  Also that earth is no longer the only planet with lightning.