Video: Jupiter Aurorae (VIDEO)

W. M. Keck Observatory

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Jupiter is first shown in visible light for context before an artistic impression of the Jovian upper atmosphere's infrared glow is overlain. The brightness of this upper atmosphere layer corresponds to temperatures, from hot to cold, in this order: white, yellow, bright red and lastly, dark red. The aurorae are the hottest regions and the animation shows how heat may be carried by winds away from the aurora and cause planet-wide heating. At the end, real data is added with a temperature scale, indicating the observed global temperatures measured in the study.

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J. O'Donoghue (JAXA)/Hubble/NASA/ESA/A. Simon/J. Schmidt

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