{"id":141301,"date":"2025-11-26T23:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141301"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:39:30","slug":"lightning-on-mars-scientists-believe-they-have-captured-its-sound-on-tapeunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141301","title":{"rendered":"Lightning on Mars? Scientists believe they have captured its sound on tapeUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by Nasa\u2019s Perseverance rover.<br \/>\nThe crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a microphone on the rover, a French-led team reported Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe researchers documented 55 instances of what they call \u201cmini lightning\u201d over two Martian years, primarily during dust storms and dust devils. Almost all occurred on the windiest Martian sols, or days, during dust storms and dust&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3334293\/lightning-mars-scientists-believe-theyve-captured-its-sound-tape?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by Nasa\u2019s Perseverance&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}