Analysis of a giant lightning storm on Saturn

@article{Fischer2007AnalysisOA,
  title={Analysis of a giant lightning storm on Saturn},
  author={Georg Fischer and William S. Kurth and Ulyana Anatolyevna Dyudina and Michael L. Kaiser and Philippe Zarka and Alain Lecacheux and Andrew P. Ingersoll and Donald A. Gurnett},
  journal={Icarus},
  year={2007},
  volume={190},
  pages={528-544}
}
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