What blows my mind is that we had not before. I would think that with all that dust flying around it's got to be pretty common. And we have satellites orbiting Mars for decades and apparently we didn't see any.
...perhaps resolution and FPS provided by these orbital cameras are not exactly what one would expect.
This lightning is only a few centimeters long: https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2025/11/26/at-l...