I did read it, it don't say anything about how it may have a aurora despite being so far. I wanted to know if you had any theories.
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Third paragraph it is just after the picture
"The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the new observations are known as auroras. They are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms of gas. As well as producing beautiful images, this program aims to determine how various components of Jupiter’s auroras respond to different conditions in the solar wind, a stream of charged particles ejected from the sun." Not easy to miss if you read the article properly obviously the distance is not too far
I don't think you quite understand my inquiry. Yes auroras are caused by solar wind, but the amount of solar wind should decrease as one travels farther away from the sun in purpotion to the inverse square law. Therefore solar wind should be far weaker out toward Jupiter. The arrival never talks about this.
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· 7 years ago
And as i said obviously the distance is not too far otherwise they could not happen as nasa describes in the article
That's the conclusion, what I want to know is WHY the distance doesn't matter. Examples: jupiters large magnetic feels helps funnel more solar wind, or perhaps Jupiter actually doesn't have very strong aurora and NASA just turns up the sensitivity in order to see it.
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Research it yourself then the information will be out there somewhere
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· 7 years ago
If you want somewhere to start try searching for solar wind Jupiter and follow that up with jupiter magnetosphere it should tell you all you need to know and i apologize for my attitude last night/early morning for me, i haven't had proper sleep in a few weeks and had a stressful day
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiter-s-atmosphere
"The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the new observations are known as auroras. They are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms of gas. As well as producing beautiful images, this program aims to determine how various components of Jupiter’s auroras respond to different conditions in the solar wind, a stream of charged particles ejected from the sun." Not easy to miss if you read the article properly obviously the distance is not too far