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Originally Posted by freebeard
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Every time I fly to Reno, Nevada and back I get to see these from the aircraft. And the water down inside them, and at their terminus, a clue as to their formation.
1) Mars 'froze' ( geologically ) about 2-billion years after its formation.
2) Before 'freezing', Mars had water vapor in its atmosphere, and liquid water on its surface.
3) In September, 2015, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's imaging and spectroscopic analysis showed that seasonal flows on the Martian slopes ( including the ' Litchtenberg' feature ) contain hydrated minerals that can only form in the presence of liquid water.
4) Martian minerology and sub-surface erosion features imply flowing water, rather than lightning from the rain clouds as the causal factor in the creation of the Litchtenberg feature.
5) For a single Martian thunderstorm track, discharging a continuous and variable-power volley of cloud-to-ground lightning, as with a plasma-cutter, or a series of multiple storms following only an identical storm track, discharging lightning, and not only 'striking twice', but 'infinitely', from a single cloud-base each time, time an time again, would constitute a statistical impossibility on Earth, known for its annual lightning strikes.
6) Early Mars, as known so far, never possessed a 'special' case for physics, which might explain 'impossible' lightning behavior.
7) And there is no evidence on Earth, that lithospheric disintegration can occur in the presence of lightning. Even the 1947 atomic bomb detonation at Trinity Site, New Mexico could only produce green glass 'Trinitite.' I know, I've been there.