During these storms, high-energy electrons can be injected into the inner belt, where they remain trapped until something, ...

The team’s data showed that Venus’ whistler waves may not actually originate from ... The results agree with a 2021 study, which failed to detect radio waves generated by lightning strikes coming from ...

The impact of lightning-generated whistler waves on radiation belt physics and their use in remote sensing of magnetospheric plasma have been researched since the 1950s.

Oddly, Venus’ whistler waves were traveling downward toward the planet, not up and away from it, as they would have been if they’d been caused by lightning, George and her team report in the ...

But most importantly, on Earth, these whistler waves are specifically rooted in lightning discharges. So, when scientists noticed whistler waves on Venus for the first time in 1978 thanks to the ...

More information: H. George et al, Non‐Lightning‐Generated Whistler Waves in Near‐Venus Space, Geophysical Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2023GL105426 ...