The geometric reduction of the discovery picture of lightning on the dark side of Jupiter relates the positions of the lightning flashes to visible cloud structure.
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Cook, A., Duxbury, T. & Hunt, G. First results on Jovian lightning. Nature 280, 794 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/280794a0
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