Lightning on Jupiter / Dr Michael H. Wong (SETI Institute; Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley) Abstract: Lightning signals of different types have been detected by every spacecraft that visited Jupiter since Voyager in 1979. The Juno mission currently in orbit around Jupiter has returned a wealth of new data on lightning phenomena. Juno's Microwave Radiometer has detected thousands of radio bursts known as "sferics." Given the distance to the spacecraft and the frequency of emission, the signals imply an incredibly powerful source strength, comparable to the rarest high-energy events in terrestrial storms. As on Earth, Jupiter's lightning is more common in some locations like cyclonic belts and storms---but rare in other locations--- revealing that heat transport by convection is not homogeneous. Combining Juno and HST data reveals the cloud structure in storms associated with intense clusters of sferics. Juno has also discovered UV emissions that may resemble terrestrial sprites, and shallow lightning that may require exotic "mushballs" composed of a slush of ammonia and water ices. associated papers: Wong et al. (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15030702 Imai et al. (2020) https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088397 Brown et al. (2018) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0156-5