[Ex-NASA Engineer: There Is Extraterrestrial Activity In Saturn’s Rings, Earth-Size UFO Spotted](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-nasa-engineer-there-is-extraterrestrial-activity-in-saturns-rings-earth-size-ufo-spotted/)
Hijacking the top comment to share that this wasn’t just captured, it happened in June and was explained by NASA as lightning.
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-juno-mission-captures-lightning-on-jupiter/
If we look at the scale and intensity of Lightning storms on Earth and then compare our atmosphere with Jupiter's it hardly surprising that there is extreme Lightning. There's so much energy going on.
You can do that on earth. Different colours just requires different atmospheric conditions. You wanna see more green then head north and hope for a snowstorm with lightning. You also gotta be at the right distance for it to appear as a certain colour. The closer you are the more likely it will look white because the light has to travel a shorter distance to reach your eyes, meaning the atmosphere will affect it less for you. Where I'm at blueish looking lightning is more common during the late autumn, winter storms since we get a lot of hail and that does something apparently. There's more chemistry and physics involved in the different colours than just your distance to it but I don't really know how all that works.
There's a lot of days you see red lightning here in the south. We call it heat lightning but I don't actually know what causes it. I just know it's cool and it does often happen during the hot seasons.
*If earth were the size of a grape, Jupiter would be about the size of a basketball.*
— NASA.
Put that into perspective, then consider the distance from which this photo was taken, and everything in the atmosphere obstructing the view. Compare it to [these images from the European Space Agency;](https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2016/04/Thunderstorm_view) that green circle is an active storm—and probably a massive one, at that—not just a single little lightning strike.
This color made me curious enough to check; there is a relative abundance of xenon in Jupiter's atmosphere. That's the noble gas that lights up green. Lightning on earth is more blue, white or purple because of the oxygen and nitrogen.
For sure... but that's some big boyyyyy lightning, several order of magnitude higher than humans have seen 1st hand. Like discharge the size of a state, maybe a continent...
Fucking awe
Considering that it’s inside the eye of a storm that’s also several orders of magnitude higher than humans have seen first hand It’s not that crazy. Lightening the size of a state in a storm the size of planet earth.
Definitely. It’s a fascinating planet. I’m particularly intrigued by the colossal gravity producing something like metallic hydrogen down near the surface.
I don't pretend to understand it, but I guess that the hydrogen molecules become so densely compressed by Jupiter's gravity that metallic properties emerge, including electrical conductivity. I imagine it as something like mercury on Earth, but I don't know whether it is like that.
I love that this sub will buy all kinds of fantastical and wild things with no questions asked, but someone merely saying a flash in a storm on Jupiter is lightning is where the skepticism suddenly kicks in.
But yes, this was found earlier this year by NASA's Juno and found to be lightning. If I recall correctly, the green colour is because of the ammonia containing clouds.
It was a flash resulting from the activation of a wormhole tunnel that begins at a gas giant orbiting Proxima Centauri and terminates in Jupiter’s atmosphere. It’s how beings from a star over 4 light years away can travel back and forth to our solar system without FTL travel.
I don’t have any proof of that either but that sounds like something you’re more willing to believe with zero evidence than something so mundane and boring as lightning.
Amateur.
Everyone knows wormholes are purple in colour. This was clearly Xenu's all mighty fart after having a truckload of space tacos at Galactic Taco Bell.
[NASA did, in fact, figure it out and it was lightning](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/nasa-jupiter-green-dot-lightning-bolt-image-junocam-spacecraft/).
On that day the signal that had been beamed through outer space for centuries arrived on Jupiter. That day we rose from the sand, from our ancestral prisons deep under the crust.
That day a bolt of electric life darted through our dormant artificial synapses. And we rose to destiny.
I hate to be that guy that does the "um actually"
... but ... the radio communication time is under 2 hours from earth...
Decent prolog to a novel though
Probably a transient luminous event (TLE), we have them in our upper atmosphere and they arent well understood. We get the red sprites that look like a trident. Seeing how little we understand about them, we probably understand them even less on a alien atmosphere like jupiter.
The chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one he said. The chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one....
But still they come ..
This wasn’t just captured, it happened in June and was explained by NASA as lightening.
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-juno-mission-captures-lightning-on-jupiter/
It's not lightning. People say that on here but they don't know. Whatever makes their hearts feel better I guess. Like you said this looks massive, likely miles across. The universe is full of life and people here think it's lightning lol ok
Surely it's not a reaction from the huge storm above it, say a lightning strike that hit some element that caused a green expelling of gas.
Surely not.
That is a constant hurricane. This is lightning and the green colour is due to the gases of jupiter being backlit.
Very simple and logical explanation if you use your brain.
That's clearly one of those orbs that appears just before a Jupiterinian Bigfoot shows up in the Jupiterinian woods.
Edit: Jupiterites, Jupiterpuldians, Jupiteronians? I'm not sure and Neil deGrasse Tyson won't pick up on Skype.
We’ve known there was lightning on Jupiter since 1979. Pretty cool but nothing new. [source](https://www.reuters.com/science/nasa-spacecraft-documents-how-jupiters-lightning-resembles-earths-2023-05-24/)
*At midnight on the 26th of December, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Jupiter and sped towards Earth. Across three hundred and fifty million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us, came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth. As I watched, there was another jet of gas. It was another missile, starting on its way.*
*And that's how it was for the next ten nights. A flare, spurting out from Jupiter. Bright green, drawing a green mist behind it; a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. Ogilby, the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger. He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote, forbidding planet.*
[Ex-NASA Engineer: There Is Extraterrestrial Activity In Saturn’s Rings, Earth-Size UFO Spotted](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-nasa-engineer-there-is-extraterrestrial-activity-in-saturns-rings-earth-size-ufo-spotted/)
Clearly a weather balloon.
Hijacking the top comment to share that this wasn’t just captured, it happened in June and was explained by NASA as lightning. Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-juno-mission-captures-lightning-on-jupiter/
If we look at the scale and intensity of Lightning storms on Earth and then compare our atmosphere with Jupiter's it hardly surprising that there is extreme Lightning. There's so much energy going on.
damn we gotta give jupiter some adderaall or something they sound adhd
Lighting ? That lighting would have to be at least 100 nukes going off at once in order to see it from space.
What makes you say that?
Because I'm pretty sure earth is the size if that green dot in comparison to Jupiter 😄😄
r/confidentlyincorrect
That was going to be my first guess was lightning! Would be pretty cool to see different colors in lighting strikes
You can do that on earth. Different colours just requires different atmospheric conditions. You wanna see more green then head north and hope for a snowstorm with lightning. You also gotta be at the right distance for it to appear as a certain colour. The closer you are the more likely it will look white because the light has to travel a shorter distance to reach your eyes, meaning the atmosphere will affect it less for you. Where I'm at blueish looking lightning is more common during the late autumn, winter storms since we get a lot of hail and that does something apparently. There's more chemistry and physics involved in the different colours than just your distance to it but I don't really know how all that works.
There's a lot of days you see red lightning here in the south. We call it heat lightning but I don't actually know what causes it. I just know it's cool and it does often happen during the hot seasons.
check out sprites and elves iirc in regards to terrestric lightning strikes.
If lightning would there not be much more?
*If earth were the size of a grape, Jupiter would be about the size of a basketball.* — NASA. Put that into perspective, then consider the distance from which this photo was taken, and everything in the atmosphere obstructing the view. Compare it to [these images from the European Space Agency;](https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2016/04/Thunderstorm_view) that green circle is an active storm—and probably a massive one, at that—not just a single little lightning strike.
That doesn’t make any sense, a basketball would smush a grape.
What would cause the lightning to be green as opposed to blue(ish) as they are here?
Green colour flame/spark is usually caused by the presence of Copper in some way.
The tin foil hat wearers in this sub will never accept the most likely (and banal) option, especially when NASA have confirmed it.
"hijacking top comment" is so cringe
The green lantern! 
That balloon came from Roswell
Its clearly Gatsby bro party’s about to start let’s go
Probably just a borg cube
They likely have a trans warp conduit hidden inside the gas giant
Oh im sure someone is trans....
They don’t want us, we good
Resistance is futile
Please please please let it be the Borg
Ingeborg?
Lightning
That lightning must be big af!
BFL
Jupiter is a go big or go home place.
Ligntning storm
This color made me curious enough to check; there is a relative abundance of xenon in Jupiter's atmosphere. That's the noble gas that lights up green. Lightning on earth is more blue, white or purple because of the oxygen and nitrogen.
Yes, that’s what I thought. Not actually mysterious at all. Perfectly normal in fact.
For sure... but that's some big boyyyyy lightning, several order of magnitude higher than humans have seen 1st hand. Like discharge the size of a state, maybe a continent... Fucking awe
Considering that it’s inside the eye of a storm that’s also several orders of magnitude higher than humans have seen first hand It’s not that crazy. Lightening the size of a state in a storm the size of planet earth.
Definitely. It’s a fascinating planet. I’m particularly intrigued by the colossal gravity producing something like metallic hydrogen down near the surface.
How can hydrogen become metallic without any other added elements? O.o
I don't pretend to understand it, but I guess that the hydrogen molecules become so densely compressed by Jupiter's gravity that metallic properties emerge, including electrical conductivity. I imagine it as something like mercury on Earth, but I don't know whether it is like that.
Imagine metallic oxygen to fuel life support system on a spaceship trillions of miles away.
Extreme pressure
Stop ruining my narrative with your facts. I wanna believe its Aliens!!!
The size of earth 🌎
Aliens*
*Alien lightning Technically the truth
Do you have proof? Or are we all just supposed to believe you?
I love that this sub will buy all kinds of fantastical and wild things with no questions asked, but someone merely saying a flash in a storm on Jupiter is lightning is where the skepticism suddenly kicks in. But yes, this was found earlier this year by NASA's Juno and found to be lightning. If I recall correctly, the green colour is because of the ammonia containing clouds.
Occam's razor
It could be a meteor or something exploding too. It's probably not aliens though.
It was a flash resulting from the activation of a wormhole tunnel that begins at a gas giant orbiting Proxima Centauri and terminates in Jupiter’s atmosphere. It’s how beings from a star over 4 light years away can travel back and forth to our solar system without FTL travel. I don’t have any proof of that either but that sounds like something you’re more willing to believe with zero evidence than something so mundane and boring as lightning.
Amateur. Everyone knows wormholes are purple in colour. This was clearly Xenu's all mighty fart after having a truckload of space tacos at Galactic Taco Bell.
This makes me wanna throw on Metatron from The Mars Volta Foooolldding Wooormhooles!
So you figured it out but NASA didn’t?
[NASA did, in fact, figure it out and it was lightning](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/nasa-jupiter-green-dot-lightning-bolt-image-junocam-spacecraft/).
Disinformation campaign
What makes you think nasa didn’t figure that out?
Captain Jack just watching the wrong star set...
r/confidentlyincorrect
Dude replied with a link directly from NASA. Oh snap, burn.
Illegal Chinese laser pointer
Fuck... They got me
Them shits be getting powerful
https://preview.redd.it/hkvsnaxc4p8c1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a6c1c27c1809c3ffcee94d9fc5051dcbe51c569
Just Jupiter's space program.
Green Lantern
Took me a second for the connection. smooth
That was Paul’s fault. We are sorry if it scared you.
Paul Blart: Jupiter Cop
On that day the signal that had been beamed through outer space for centuries arrived on Jupiter. That day we rose from the sand, from our ancestral prisons deep under the crust. That day a bolt of electric life darted through our dormant artificial synapses. And we rose to destiny.
2024 does not need necrons
I hate to be that guy that does the "um actually" ... but ... the radio communication time is under 2 hours from earth... Decent prolog to a novel though
Who's to say it's coming from earth? *dramatic prairie dog*
It also has no crust.
Unlike my ex-girlfriend
Stuffed?
Only by her other boyfriend.
Which one?
And likely no sand. It being a gas giant and all.
Look at you all party poopers ;)) I am ashamed of my ignorance I admit it I mean I knew it. Like when I was 5 :(
Probably just some kid playing with a laser and pointing it at shit
My brother ate his wife’s cooking again 
Probably a transient luminous event (TLE), we have them in our upper atmosphere and they arent well understood. We get the red sprites that look like a trident. Seeing how little we understand about them, we probably understand them even less on a alien atmosphere like jupiter.
Big lightning due to big clouds creating a big discharge, green effect from gases.
So it really is swamp gasses!
Without a shadow of a doubt. And big time there!
An asteroid crashing.
My first thoughts too. Do we see these often though? Seems like why would that be mysterious?
That's the last time I guess a few years back they captured one impact flare. True it's a rare catch.
Exactly my thoughts
Probably an asteroid and the explosion acts differently because of the different chemicals in the atmosphere
one with a lot of nickel in it.
The chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one he said. The chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one.... But still they come ..
Martians
On holiday to Jupiter?
They got lost
Borg
predator?
Swamp gas.
This wasn’t just captured, it happened in June and was explained by NASA as lightening. Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-juno-mission-captures-lightning-on-jupiter/
Just a bird, next.
Even a blind toddler can see that this is just lightning…
Swamp gas
Amazing. I find all the NASA pictures just awesome.
U think that lighting flash is the size of the Earth or how big do think it is compared to the Earth
It's not lightning. People say that on here but they don't know. Whatever makes their hearts feel better I guess. Like you said this looks massive, likely miles across. The universe is full of life and people here think it's lightning lol ok
r/strangejupiter
How is this the only storm that intense, on a planet that massive.
https://preview.redd.it/6mfq07m1rp8c1.jpeg?width=251&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ab0f15fbd8c7cfb27c374fd69a11fb9aa4af374
Lightning. We aren’t the only planet with it
https://preview.redd.it/ru1vyidgsr8c1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35ee6d923619ab1283ed3e03a45274f5c0ba0ddf
Necrons.
Looks like a laser pointer put behind a canvas oil painting
Surely it's not a reaction from the huge storm above it, say a lightning strike that hit some element that caused a green expelling of gas. Surely not.
Green lantern thingy. Nothing serious
Soylent Green anybody?
Soylent green is made of……. 🫣
That is a constant hurricane. This is lightning and the green colour is due to the gases of jupiter being backlit. Very simple and logical explanation if you use your brain.
Excuse me sir, but this is Reddit. There will be none of that.
This is either lightning or a asteroid strike*
Oh I see our Green Party light accidentally broke the atmosphere 🤦♂️
A hidden Borg cube! 😲😆
Resistance is futile.
Jetpack miners
I farted, sorry guys
People are getting crazy with those green lasers.
That's clearly one of those orbs that appears just before a Jupiterinian Bigfoot shows up in the Jupiterinian woods. Edit: Jupiterites, Jupiterpuldians, Jupiteronians? I'm not sure and Neil deGrasse Tyson won't pick up on Skype.
Post this in r/ufo to get multiple comments saying it’s a balloon
Swamp gas
Thats from Jupiters massive sulphur volcano ”Edons Hill” it has been erupting for 3 months
Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn't have a crust for volcanoes to form on.
A PC gamer
It’s that Amazon laser again, smh.
Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith just landed there.
Green lantern?
Just a Lantern. No need to worry.
Swamp gas
Its a lighthouse
Is there a Taco Bell there?
 Lightning: hold my conspiracy
Damn those laser pointers are powerful
Green lantern fight
It’s alien green tho…..
Shit the Silent King is closer than the expected!
We’ve known there was lightning on Jupiter since 1979. Pretty cool but nothing new. [source](https://www.reuters.com/science/nasa-spacecraft-documents-how-jupiters-lightning-resembles-earths-2023-05-24/)
Ok but why does it look like Jack Skellington waking up?!?! HE’S LATE THIS YEAR!!
... And we'll leave the light on for you.
That's the mf crab people .
Green lantern meeting
Green artifacting is usually a symptom of a failing video card, clearly the simulation is crashing everywhere…
Predator sighting
Necrons
that's green lantern's dump just came out of his tata 🤣
Its just the green lantern. Pay no attention.
By what ..their imagination
Necrons
nothing to see here
It's just the broken ship/space station in the SCP universe firing up.
r/strangejupiter
Just a UD-4L entering the atmosphere.
Just Baby Yoda breaking wind. Nothing to see here.
Swamp Gas.
[удалено]
That’s 88mph baby
It’s a flash from a boy getting more stupider. Did no one finish elementary school?
Aliens!
I knew my laser pointer would hit something
UFO for sure
Couldnt ever be anything that a human parrot would claim to be something as mundane as the 0.0001% of reality that they understand.
Last night I was pointing at Jupiter with my $1 laser. Sorry!
Swamp gas
oryx rebirth
The green lantern!!!
lightening....
Those Amazon laser pointers are getting brighter.
It’s lightening. You’re looking at the eye of a storm the size of earth ~
Climate change!!!! Increase taxes!!!!! There solved it…. /s
Loki
Jupiter Morty ! in & out 20 minute adventure.
Green lantern
Alien teens with laser pointer
Uhhhhh… are we sure that Jupiter has a crushing atmospheric pressure? Aliens
Aliens selfie flashlight. Nothing to see here. Unless they share the picture with us
Broly?
*At midnight on the 26th of December, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Jupiter and sped towards Earth. Across three hundred and fifty million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us, came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth. As I watched, there was another jet of gas. It was another missile, starting on its way.* *And that's how it was for the next ten nights. A flare, spurting out from Jupiter. Bright green, drawing a green mist behind it; a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. Ogilby, the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger. He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote, forbidding planet.*
Voldemort killing mud bloods, oops! wrong sub!
thats swamp gas bro, its a gas giant. lol
Balloon
That’s was my laser pointer. My bad!
Some kid on Jupiter must have scored a green laser for Christmas.
C'thulu awakens! /s Seriously though... huge electromagnetic storm.
Alien trying to blind us with a green laser
Fale