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Watching that experiment in the bottle makes me wonder if that
is the cause of the strange lights on the moon that are seen very
often and could also explain the craters which are not deep enough
to be caused by impacts.

muckyman wrote:

Watching that experiment in the bottle makes me wonder if that
is the cause of the strange lights on the moon that are seen very
often and could also explain the craters which are not deep enough
to be caused by impacts.

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Though I suspect some of the larger craters are formed by different lightning. Lightning from space.
Imagine a massive dust cloud passing by the moon, similar to the one now drifting into the solarsystem.
When this cloud gets dense enough, it could set off giant celestial lightning or plasma bolts to the Moon and the planets.
The same way lightning forms in rainclouds and in the smoke from volcanic eruptions.