Transient aurora on Jupiter from injections of magnetospheric electrons

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Mauk, B. H., Clarke, J. T., Grodent, D., Waite, J. Hunter, Paranicas, C. P., Williams, D. J.
• Other Authors: Univ Michigan, Dept Atmospher Ocean & Space Sci, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA, Johns Hopkins Univ, Appl Phys Lab, Laurel, MD 20723 USA, Boston Univ, Dept Astron, Boston, MA 02215 USA, Boston Univ, Ctr Space Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2002
• Subjects: Science; Jupiter; southern lights
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62734; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=11875562&dopt=citation; https://doi.org/10.1038/4151003a

Energetic electrons and ions that are trapped in Earth's magnetosphere can suddenly be accelerated towards the planet(1-5). Some dynamic features of Earth's aurora (the northern and southern lights) are created by the fraction of these injected particles that travels along magnetic field l...