Imagine a Huge Leyden Jar capacitor , 500 yards wide and 200 feet high,storing repeated lightning strikes attracted by a substrate of sealed, highly ionized salt water, a huge subterranean aquifer. An abandoned salt mine would do quite nicely.
I have done a virtual tour of Mars and will again with an eye to the patterns.Barsoom!
Catastrophist Geology | EU2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDbDMlEWIIY
Michael Steinbacher died...pity.