The Mystery of Jupiter's Aurora DEFY All The Laws Of Physics On Earth
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So, you think Earth’s northern lights are big and majestic? Well, they truly are amazing but that may not be the case for every planet in our solar system according to Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, who said that auroras on earth are nothing compared to auroras on Jupiter which has auroras bigger than our entire planet. So, not all auroras are created equal. Jupiter’s auroral glow is much stronger than Earth’s, and researchers assumed it was caused by the same process that generates our planet’s brightest auroras. But new observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show that’s not true.
So, what is causing Jupiter’s auroras to glow different? Let’s find out!
Welcome to Space World. In today’s video we are going to talk about how Jupiter’s auroras defy all of the laws of physics on earth. So, if you want to know more about it then stay with un until the end of the video.
The stunning colors, storms, and natural phenomena on Jupiter make it one of the most fascinating objects in the solar system. It’s by far the largest planet in the solar system and more than twice the size of as all others combined. For some perspective, if the Earth was the size of a grape, Jupiter would be the size of a basketball.
In addition, the planet is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium and If it has any hard surface at all, it would be a core about the size of the Earth. But astronomers have yet to discover what’s at its center. So, the planet has many more fascinating aspects associated with the but the most amazing of all are the auroras there!
But what makes an aurora?
Maybe you’re familiar with earthly auroras. They are colorful displays of light in the skies visible from high latitudes. The aurora borealis shines within the Arctic Circle of Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. The aurora australis shimmers above the Antarctic Circle down south and people far and wide travel to see these glorious lights, and to marvel at them.
Therefore, On Earth, the aurora is a product of a natural process by which electrically charged particles, or ions, ejected from the sun collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in Earth’s atmosphere.
So, Auroras, and the processes that create them, can be found throughout our solar system. Scientists know of auroras on seven of our sun’s planets. Some are visible to the human eye. Others require specialized telescopes to be seen. However, Jupiter has the most powerful auroras in the solar system and that’s not surprising, since it’s our solar system’s most massive planet. But Jupiter is the only one of the four giant planets with an aurora that has been found to emit X-rays.
So, what’s the mystery behind the strange behavior of auroras on Jupiter?
Jupiter’s auroras are unusual. They’ve had scientists scratching their heads since NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe first discovered them in 1979. Scientists have studied and scrutinized Jupiter’s auroras since then and it was not immediately clear how the energy required to produce Jupiter’s x-rays aurora is generated. But They knew these surprising Jovian northern and southern lights are triggered by ions crashing into Jupiter’s atmosphere.
At Earth, auroras are usually visible only in a belt surrounding the magnetic poles, between 65 and 80 degrees latitude. Beyond 80 degrees, auroral emission disappears because the magnetic field lines leave Earth and connect to the magnetic field in the solar wind, but Jupiter’s X-ray auroras are different. They exist poleward of the main auroral belt and pulsate.
