as I have been having problems with lightning here are some scientific data that maybe you guys can use to fix it as I am sick and tired of losing my base in my constructed stuff due to inaccurate lightning. Lightning on Mars
On Earth, lightning is an electric discharge that begins inside big clouds.
But because Mars is so dry, it doesn’t have clouds of water – instead, it has clouds of dust. With little water to weigh down dirt on Mars, dust clouds can quickly grow into huge, windy dust storms a few times taller than Earth’s tallest thunderstorms.
When smaller dust particles and larger sand particles collide with each other while being whipped around by these storms, they pick up a static charge. Smaller dust particles take on a negative charge, while larger sand particles become positive. The smaller dust particles are lighter and will float higher, while the heavier sand tends to fall closer to the ground. Because oppositely charged particles don’t like to be apart, eventually the energy building between the negative charges higher up in the dust storm and the positive charges closer to the ground becomes too great and is released as electricity – similar to lightning.
The air around the electricity rapidly warms up and expands – on Earth, this creates the shock waves that you hear as thunder.
Nobody has seen a flash of lightning on Mars, but we suspect it’s more like the glow from a neon light rather than a powerful lightning bolt. The atmosphere near the surface of Mars is about 100 times less dense than on Earth: It’s much more similar to the air inside neon lights.
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