How can they hear thunderstorms on Jupiter using Satellite Dishes?
All thunderstorms emit radio waves. They travel beyond Earth or Jupiter or whichever planet the storms are on and can be picked by radio telescopes, which in fact are just like satellite dishes. Radio detector may be a better term than radio telescope but we are stuck with radio telescope now. Both satellite dishes and radio telescopes have a reflector and a receiving element, and you can convert a satellite dish into a radio telescope for astronomy quite easily by just changing the receiver to one that is sensitive to the 21cm line of Hydrogen or to other wavelengths as required…for example to pick up radio reflections from meteor trails. You will need an amplifier designed for the new frequencies, but it isn’t difficult to do.. A satellite dish is simply a radio telescope designed to work at the frequencies used for satellite transmissions of television and radio programs. Because of the strength of signal involved, only a small dish is required. The dish has a parabolic curve whic
