Robert sent in the following links – an update on the Thunderstorms post and gamma rays a few days ago. At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241002123025.htm … most tropical lightning storms are radioactive, we are told. Thunderstorms can act as miniature particle accelerators that produce anti-matter, gamma rays, and other nuclear phenomena – but they didn’t know how common it was until now. A retrofitted U2 spy plane has discovered all large thunderstorms seem to produce gamma rays. In unexpected and unknown ways.
At https://www.sci.news/biology/bushveld-igneous-complex-living-microbes-13311.html … microbiologists find living microbes in a 2 billion years old rock – from the Bushveld Igneous Complex which is located in NW South Africa. This is an interesting rock formation in another way. It is an intrusion that formed when magma cooled. It is roughly the size of Ireland and contains some of the richest ore deposits on the planet. For example, it contains roughly 70 per cent of the worlds mined platinum. More information is necessary in order to find out what kind of microbes they are talking about and their normal habitat.
At https://www.iflscience.com/a-cold-heart-and-patchy-clouds-jupiters-great-red-spot-as-weve-never-seen-it-before-76223 … Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is actually a storm in its atmosphere. In comparable size, it is bigger than the Earth. But then Jupiter is very big. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Hubble Telescope, has been used to look at it more closely.
Lastly, I have added the link https://phys.org/news/2024-10-era-solar-international-team-global.html … an international team have collaborated to produce a global map of the coronal magnetic field.