PIA24433: Aurorae on Jupiter and Earth
This illustration depicts ultraviolet polar aurorae on Jupiter and Earth.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Juno 
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) 
 Product Size:  1667 x 1250 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  SwRI 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA24433.tif (1.407 MB)
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This illustration depicts ultraviolet polar aurorae on Jupiter and Earth. While the diameter of the Jovian world is 10 times larger than that of Earth, both planets have markedly similar aurora.

More information about Juno is at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/UVS/STScI/MODIS/WIC/IMAGE/ULiège

Image Addition Date:
2021-03-16