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Evidence Found Of Lightning On Mars, Have detected the first direct evidence of lighting on Mars
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post Jun 18 2009, 04:26 AM
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Evidence Found Of Lightning On Mars
This link does not mention about how they have detected the lighting on Mars.
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post Jun 18 2009, 11:48 PM
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Hard to interpret this. A 'kurtosis detector' seems to imply that it's looking for sudden peaks in emission rather than a normal distribution across the monitored spectrum, which maybe is why they describe it as distinguishing thermal vs. non-thermal (non-blackbody radiation).

That's my best guess, anyhow, and it does seem to be an Earth-based instrument. The article definitely could have provided a better description.


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- SpaceListener   Evidence Found Of Lightning On Mars   Jun 18 2009, 04:26 AM
- - Fran Ontanaya   http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?...   Jun 18 2009, 05:03 AM
- - tasp   It's still pretty early this morning, but as t...   Jun 18 2009, 12:43 PM
- - remcook   According to the link above it's from a microw...   Jun 18 2009, 01:52 PM
- - nprev   Hard to interpret this. A 'kurtosis detector...   Jun 18 2009, 11:48 PM

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