Jupiter's Northern Lights
The aurora phenomenon on Jupiter was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectograph (STIS) in 1998. This link will take you to the Hubble STIS site (like a sci-fi picture book). http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/html/heic0009a.html
Discoveries suggest that Jupiter's aurora may be 1000 times more powerful than Earth's. http://www.sprl.umich.edu/CassiniHSTJupiterflyby/
That must be some light show! :O
Being from Alaska, I have a thing for Northern Lights.
ReplyDelete:o)
I'll bet you get some spectacular shows up there, Kimber An.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in northern Michigan we occasionally got some very brilliant displays, like wavy curtains of colored light. So impressive, and a bit eerie, too. I was trying to imagine the intensity of some of those displays x 1000. (Wow!)