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Time-Resolved Observations of Jupiter's Far-Ultraviolet Aurora

Casertano, Stefano; Ballester, Gilda E.; Krist, John E. +19 more

Simultaneous imaging and spectroscopic observations of Jupiter's far-ultraviolet aurora covering half a jovian rotation were made on 31 May 1994. The Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images revealed dramatic and rapidly changing auroral features, including discrete longitudinal structures along the auroral ovals, with variable …