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Morphology and time variation of the Jovian far UV aurora: Hubble Space Telescope observations

Paresce, Francesco; Prange, Renee; Gerard, Jean-Claude +1 more

High spatial resolution images of the north polar region of Jupiter have been obtained with the Faint Object Camera on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The first set of two images collected 87 min apart in February 1992 shows a bright (≃180 kR) emission superimposed on the background in rotation with the planet. Both Ly α images show common regio…