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The morphology of the north Jovian ultraviolet aurora observed with the Hubble Space Telescope

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

A series of six images covering a complete rotation of the north polar region of Jupiter were obtained in February 1993 with the Faint Object Camera on board the Hubble Space Telescope. These images provide the first global picture of the morphology of the Jovian ultraviolet aurora observed from Earth orbit. The camera passband was centered near 1…