Powerful Lightning on Venus Constrained by Atmospheric NO
Tereza Constantinou et al 2025 Planet. Sci. J. 6 246 For lightning to be responsible for the level of nitric oxide estimated to be present in Venus’s atmosphere, it must release more energy per…
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