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Moreover, even on Earth, when lightning strikes the sand, you can find strips of glass in it that were formed from such an impact. True, this is only relevant for ordinary lightning. Ball lightning will not give such an effect. But seeing it is also very rare. The probability of doing this at least once in a lifetime does not exceed one chance in ten thousand.

covered in water and lightning should strike the water. But luxembourg number data this is not so. Powerful convection air currents form over land and 80 percent of lightning strikes a solid surface.

In general, only a quarter of lightning strikes reach the Earth's surface. The rest are discharged between layers of air masses at different altitudes.

Where does lightning come from?
Now the answer to this question is unambiguous. They appear from the atmosphere and are a discharge between the layers of air or a layer of air and the earth. Sometimes they hit the ground, and sometimes between the layers of the atmosphere, but for a modern educated person there is nothing mystical in them. But before, people just came up with everything... The most famous character is Zeus - the god of the sky, thunder and lightning in ancient Greek mythology. He was not only the main of the Olympian gods, the husband of Hera and the brother of Poseidon, but also ruled the whole world. That is, he was the main god. In Roman mythology, he was identified with Jupiter, the Slavs had Perun, and the Scandinavians - Thor.