NASA spacecraft captures glowing green dot on Jupiter caused by a lightning bolt

An image from Jupiter taken by NASA's JunoCam shows a bright green dot on the planet's north pole. Turns out, the glowing orb is a lightning bolt, NASA says.

While lightning on Earth often comes from water clouds near the equator, clouds containing an ammonia-water solution oftentimes cause lighting near Jupiter's poles, according to NASA.

Juno started its mission on Jupiter in 2016 and orbited the planet 35 times, capturing images and data. The images taken by the spacecraft are made public by NASA for people to download and process.